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Bloomsbury Euripides: Hecuba (Companions to Greek and Roman Tragedy)

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Product Description Chosen as one of the ten canonical plays by Euripides during the Hellenistic period in Greece, Hecuba was popular throughout Antiquity. The play also became part of the so-called 'Byzantine triad' of three plays of Euripides (along with Phoenician Women and Orestes) selected for study in school curricula, above all for the brilliance of its rhetorical speeches and quotable traditional wisdom. Translations into Latin and vernacular languages, as well as stage performances emerged early in the sixteenth century. The Renaissance admired the play for its representation of the extraordinary suffering and misfortunes of its newly-enslaved heroine, the former queen of Troy Hecuba, for the courageous sacrificial death of her daughter Polyxena, and for the beleaguered queen's surprisingly successful revenge against the unscrupulous killer of her son Polydorus. Later periods, however, developed reservations about the play's revenge plot and its unity. Recent scholarship has favorably reassessed the play in its original cultural and political context and the past thirty years have produced a number of exciting staged productions. Hecuba has emerged as a profound exploration of the difficulties of establishing justice and a stable morality in post-war situations. This book investigates the play's changing critical and theatrical reception from Antiquity to the present, its mythical and political background, its dramatic and thematic unity, and the role of its choruses. Review Helene Foley provides an excellent and accessible guide to Hecuba, a play that has regained prominence both in scholarly study and contemporary performance and adaption. She provides a judicious overview of the main interpretive lines that have been applied to a tragedy that is both emotionally wrenching and rhetorically and ethically challenging. A particularly strong feature is the survey of the changing reception of the play, from antiquity to the present, with a perceptive and detailed analysis of the performance tradition during the last two generations.This very valuable volume has encompassed a huge amount of material within a relatively small space with great skill and elegance. About the Author Helene P. Foley is Professor of Classics, Barnard College, Columbia University, USA. She is the author of books and articles on Greek epic and drama, on women and gender in Antiquity, and on modern performance and adaptation of Greek drama.

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Brand: Bloomsbury
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 1472569075
Category: Books > Subjects > History > Ancient History & Civilisation
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 18 December 2014
Listed Since: 03 April 2014

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