Catastrophe Survived : Euripides' Plays of Mixed Reversal

by: Burnett, A.P.

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 Examining the seven Euripidean tragicomdeies, this book contends that the plays' plots--compounded as they are of the opposite elements of good fortune and catastrophe--result from experimentation with a new form intended to express a characteristically Euripidean view of reality. The plays
involve people scaled for comedy trying to live in a world ruled by the gods of tragedy, making efforts sometimes noble, sometimes sordid, but in the end, essentially futile. Burnett shows how Euripides manipulates tradtional scenes, diverting and frustrating the expectations aroused in his
audience and transforming their simple pity and terror into a response that is conscious, complex, and inescapably disturbing.

Euripides -- Criticism and interpretation.
Tragicomedy -- History and criticism.
Mythology, Greek, in literature.

Subjects:
Criticism, interpretation, etc
Drama in Greek Euripides - Critical studies
Euripides
Euripides Criticism and interpretation
Mythologie grecque dans la littérature
Mythology, Greek, in literature
Tragicomedies
Tragicomedy
Tragicomedy History and criticism
Tragicomédie Histoire et critique
Tragicomédies

viii, 234 pages ; 22 cm

Catastrophe Survived : Euripides' Plays of Mixed Reversal

by: Burnett, A.P.

• ISBN-13: 9780198140382 / 978-0-19-814038-2
• ISBN-03: 019814038X / 0-19-814038-X
• Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1985

Price: 49,00 EURO

1 copy in stock