A Companion to Euripides is an up–to–date, centralized assessment of Euripides and his work, drawing from the most recently published texts, commentaries, and scholarship, and offering detailed discussions and provocative interpretations of his extant plays and fragments. The most contemporary scholarship on Euripides and his oeuvre, featuring the latest texts and commentaries Leading scholars in the field discuss all of Euripides plays and their afterlife with breadth and depth A dedicated section focuses on the reception of Euripidean drama since the Hellenistic Original and provocative interpretations of Euripides and his plays forge important paths of in future scholarship INDICE: Notes on Contributors viii .Acknowledgments xiii .List of Abbreviations xiv .1 Introduction 1Laura K. McClure .PART I Text, Author, and Tradition 9 .2 Text and Transmission 11Donald J. Mastronarde .3 The Euripidean Biography 27Ruth Scodel .4 Euripides and the Development of Greek Tragedy 42John Gibert .PART II Early Plays (438 416 bce) 59 .5 Alcestis 61Eirene Visvardi .6 Medea 80Laura Swift .7 Children of Heracles 92Owen E. Goslin .8 Hippolytus 107Mary Ebbott .9 Andromache 122Ian C. Storey10 Hecuba 136Daniel Turkeltaub11 Suppliant Women 152Laura K. McClure12 Electra 166Hanna M. Roisman13 Heracles: The Perfect Piece 182C.W. Marshall .PART III Later Plays (After 416 bce) 197 .14 Trojan Women 199Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz .15 Iphigenia in Tauris 214Jennifer Clarke Kosak .16 Ion: An Edible Fairy Tale? 228Emma M. Griffiths .17 Significant Inconsistencies in Euripides Helen 243Deborah Boedeker .18 Phoenician Women 258Anna A. Lamari .19 Orestes 270Elton Barker .20 Iphigenia at Aulis 284Isabelle Torrance .21 Bacchae 298Laurialan Reitzammer .PART IV Satyr, Spurious, and Fragmentary Plays 313 .22 Cyclops 315Patrick O Sullivan .23 Rhesus 334Vayos Liapis .24 Fragments and Fragmentary Plays 347Christopher Collard .PART V Form, Structure, and Performance 365 .25 Form and Structure 367Markus Dubischar .26 The Theater of Euripides 390David Kawalko Roselli .27 The Euripidean Chorus 412Sheila Murnaghan .28 Euripides and the Sound of Music 428Armand D Angour .PART VI Topics and Approaches 445 .29 Euripides and his Intellectual Context 447Francis M. Dunn .30 Myth 468Matthew Wright .31 Euripides and Religion 483Judith Fletcher .32 Gender 500Melissa Mueller .PART VII Reception 515 .33 Euripides, Aristophanes, and the Reception of Sophistic Styles 517Nancy Worman .34 Euripides in the Fourth Century bce 533Anne Duncan .35 Euripides and Senecan Drama 546Christopher Star .36 All Aboard the Bacchae Bus: Reception of Euripides in the Twentieth and Twenty ]first Centuries 565Barbara Goff .Index 583
- ISBN: 978-1-119-25750-9
- Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
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- Fecha Publicación: 27/12/2016
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