Catastrophe Survived. Euripides' Plays of Mixed Reversal. - BURNETT, A.P.,
Euripides' plays of mixed reversal.
KORTE INHOUD
'This stimulating book discusses seven plays of Euripides from a point of view which is carefully stated at the beginning and consistently maintained throughout. Professor Burnett explains that she is not here concerned with the 'verbal modes' of tragedy; nor with the 'physical modes' of the Attic theatre (...). She bases her interpretation of the plays on a study of Euripides' handling of conventions of a different kind - the 'limited set of matrix-plots' into which traditional story was broken up for the purposes of the tragic genre. (...) She sees the tragic poets as building their dramas out of suppliant plots, vengenance plots, willing-sacrifice plots, and the like, each with its characteristic scenes, tableaux, and characters. (...) but both Sophocles and Euripides 'showed a major preoccupation with devices that could introduce a covert multiplicity' into this artificial unity, and in so doing brought their plays closer to the complexities of real life. It was Euripides who carried this furthest, in wor...
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Oxford, 1971. VIII,234p. Cloth wrps. Gilt titled spine. A few pen annotations in index. Name and date on free endpaper. [Antiquarian] [Auteur: BURNETT, A.P.,] [Uitgever: Clarendon Press] [Jaar: 1971] [Titel: Catastrophe Survived. Euripides' Plays of Mixed Reversal.]
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Oxford, 1971. VIII,234p. Cloth wrps. Gilt titled spine. A few pen annotations in index. Name and date on free endpaper. [Antiquarian] [Auteur: BURNETT, A.P.,] [Uitgever: Clarendon Press] [Jaar: 1971] [Titel: Catastrophe Survived. Euripides' Plays of Mixed Reversal.]
