Iphigenia among the Taurians, Bacchae, Iphigenia at Aulis, Rhesus - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Iphigenia among the Taurians, Bacchae, Iphigenia at Aulis, Rhesus write by Euripides. This book was released on 1999-01-28. Iphigenia among the Taurians, Bacchae, Iphigenia at Aulis, Rhesus available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is the second of three volumes of a new prose translation, with introduction and notes, of Euripides' most popular plays. The first three tragedies translated in this volume illustrate Euripides' extraordinary dramatic range. Iphigenia among the Taurians, set on the Black Sea at the edge of the known world, is much more than an exciting story of escape. It is remarkable for its sensitive delineation of character as it weighs Greek against barbarian civilization. Bacchae, a profound exploration of the human psyche, deals with the appalling consequences of resistance to Dionysus, god of wine and unfettered emotion. This tragedy, which above all others speaks to our post-Freudian era, is one of Euripides' two last surviving plays. The second, Iphigenia at Aulis, so vastly different as to highlight the playwright's Protean invention, centres on the ultimate dysfunctional family, that of Agamemnon, as natural emotion is tested in the tragic crucible of the Greek expedition against Troy. Rhesus, probably the work of another playwright, deals with a grisly event in the Trojan War. Like Iphigenia at Aulis, its `subject is war and the pity of war', but it is also an exciting, action-packed theatrical Iliad in miniature.
The Iphigenia Plays
The Iphigenia Plays - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Iphigenia Plays write by Euripides. This book was released on 2018-06-15. The Iphigenia Plays available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. At the heart of Iphigenia’s enduring story are an ambitious, opportunistic, and indecisive leader and the daughter whose life he is willing to sacrifice. In The Iphigenia Plays, poet Rachel Hadas offers a new generation of readers a graceful, clear, and powerful translation of Euripides’s two spellbinding (and very different) plays drawn from this legend: Iphigenia in Aulis and Iphigenia among the Taurians. Even for readers unfamiliar with Greek mythology or drama, these plays are suspenseful, poignant, and haunting. Euripides’s ability to evoke emotion and raise difficult questions has long engaged viewers and readers alike. Taken together, the two plays illuminate timeless human conflicts, showcasing individuals and families ensnared by the fury of war, of politics, of religion, and of ambition. Euripidean characters are always second-guessing themselves; now new readers can also ponder their dilemmas. Poet and translator Rachel Hadas highlights the lyricism, emotion, and sheer humanity of Euripides’s plays. Mordant humor is here; so are heartbreak and tenderness. Hadas offers an Iphigenia story that resonates with our own troubled times and demonstrates anew the genius of one of the world’s supreme dramatists.
Iphigenia, Phaedra, Athaliah
Iphigenia, Phaedra, Athaliah - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Iphigenia, Phaedra, Athaliah write by Jean Racine. This book was released on 2004-12-02. Iphigenia, Phaedra, Athaliah available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Strongly influenced by Classical drama, Jean Racine (1639-99) broke away from the grandiose theatricality of baroque drama to create works of intense psychological realism, with characters manipulated by cruel and vengeful gods. Iphigenia depicts a princess's absolute submission to her father's will, despite his determination to sacrifice her to gain divine favour before going to war. Described by Voltaire as 'the masterpiece of the human mind', Phaedra shows a woman's struggle to overcome her overwhelming passion for her stepson - an obsession that brings destruction to a noble family. And Athaliah portrays a ruthless pagan queen, who defies Jehovah in her desperate attempt to keep the throne of Jerusalem from its legitimate heir.
Iphigenia at Aulis by Euripides
Iphigenia at Aulis by Euripides - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Iphigenia at Aulis by Euripides write by David Bolton. This book was released on 2019-10-28. Iphigenia at Aulis by Euripides available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A new translation by David Bolton of Euripides' tragedy Iphigenia at Aulis. The prose and verse of the translation aim to provide an authentic rendering of the original Greek text and to maintain its spirit. The translation is accompanied by background notes, a discussion of the central characters and the part played by rhetoric in the play. There is also a translation of the text of The Origins and Life of Euripides that has been transmitted with the texts of Euripides' plays.
Adventures with Iphigenia in Tauris
Adventures with Iphigenia in Tauris - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Adventures with Iphigenia in Tauris write by Edith Hall. This book was released on 2013-01-10. Adventures with Iphigenia in Tauris available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book presents a cultural history of the Greek tragedy and its influence on subsequent Greek and Roman art and literature.
