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Balaustion's Adventure: Including a Transcript from Euripides
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Balaustion's Adventure: Including a Transcript from Euripides, by R.
Browning, published 1871. The story, suggested by a passage in
Plutarch's Life of Nicias, is set just after the defeat of the Athenian expedition against Sicily in 413 bc. A group of pro-Athenians from Rhodes, inspired by the young girl Balaustion, is intercepted on its voyage to Athens by a pirate ship and is forced to seek shelter in the harbour of Syracuse, where it is refused entry until it is discovered that Balaustion can recite a play by
Euripides. The play is
Alcestis, a performance of which Balaustion narrates, mingling with the text her own comments and descriptions. Browning is thus able to represent Euripides' play in his own interpretation, within the framework of another speaker's consciousness, a marriage of conventional drama with dramatic monologue.
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ISLAND CAVE BELIEVED TO BE SITE WHERE EURIPIDES PENNED PLAY.(News)
Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA); 1/31/1998; 646 words
; ...Archaeologists have found the hideaway used by Euripides to write at least one of his timeless...letters of Euripedes' name in Greek. Euripides, the iconoclastic poet believed to have...contemporary. Lolos thinks at least one of Euripides' plays, ``Hippolytus,'' was inspired...
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GOETHE'S IPHIGENIE AND EURIPIDES' IPHIGENIA IN TAURIS
Magazine article from: AUMLA : Journal of the Australasian Universities Modern Language Association; 2/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...mutatis mutandis, contemporary views of Euripides himself. Certainly, we can deduce from...Athenian minds in the fifth century BC Euripides was too modern and even, if we translate...and imaginative-in which Goethe made Euripides' Iphigenia in Tauris his own. Clearly...
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Medea, our first drama queen; Euripides' tragic, complex icon has captivated audiences for 2,433 years.(SUNDAY DATEBOOK)
Newspaper article from: San Francisco Chronicle; 11/10/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...when "Medea" premiered in 431 B.C. Euripides received the third, or last, prize...Seneca's "Medea" more often than Euripides'. Writing some 400 years later (about...Medea somewhat sympathetic was one of Euripides' most profound achievements. Taking...
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Trojan harlot? I think not Euripides' play presents Helen as a model of wifely fidelity
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 8/2/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...Frank McGuinness, whose adaptation of Euripides' Helen opens at Shakespeare's Globe today. 'With this play, Euripides turned the traditional myth of Helen...one of Athens' great tragedians, Euripides was also - as the plot of Helen proves...
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Euripides With a Beat: `Orestes' as Rock Opera
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 4/25/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...And that can mean only one thing: Euripides is gonna rock. In recent seasons, the...Broadway. Phone (312) 404-0048. Euripides was the youngest, and in many ways the...dramatist Mee has stuck closely to the Euripides original, he also has built a 20th century...
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Euripides is given a kicking; Brazilian duel: Greg Hicks (left), as the corrupt police chief Gordilho, gets a capoeira lesson from Carlo Alexandre Teixeira Da Silva.(Theater review)
Newspaper article from: The Evening Standard (London, England); 1/12/2009; 700+ words
; ...Katie Mitchell summoned up the spirit of Euripides's Trojan Women, with captive females...which Frances Viner's adaptation of Euripides's most influential play is filtered...supposed to help you to know yourself. Yet Euripides called for just such a balance between...
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Euripides is given a kicking ; THEATRE
Newspaper article from: Evening Standard - London; 1/12/2009; ; 580 words
; ...Katie Mitchell summoned up the spirit of Euripides's Trojan Women, with captive females...which Frances Viner's adaptation of Euripides's most influential play is filtered...supposed to help you to know yourself. Yet Euripides called for just such a balance between...
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Silent Witness: Racine's Non-Verbal Annotations of Euripides.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 4/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...Racine's Non-Verbal Annotations of Euripides By SUSANNA PHILLIPPO. Oxford: Legenda...creative writers of his time), used Euripides more than Aeschylus or Sophocles as source...Racine's non-verbal annotations of Euripides and his own tragedies. She stresses...
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Dark comedy.(Euripides. Vol. 5: Helen, Phoenician Women, Orestes)(Euripides. Vol. 6: The Bacchae, Iphigenia at Aulis, Rhesus)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: New Criterion; 5/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; David Kovacs, editor Euripides. Vol. 5: Helen, Phoenician Women...the late, bleak, crazy plays of Euripides: Fanatical enthusiasm was the mark...editing all six volumes of the new Loeb Euripides. The final two volumes contain Helen...
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Apollo's oracle in Euripides' Ion ambiguous identities in fifth-century Athens.(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Ancient Narrative; 1/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...fifth century BC. (1) It looks at Euripides' Ion as an example of an author who...conventions of the oracular discourse Euripides unmasks the underlying principles that...ideological contradictions as human society: Euripides' account depicts religion as both a...
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Euripides
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Euripides Euripides (480-406 B.C.) was a Greek playwright whom Aristotle called...certainly the most revolutionary Greek tragedian known in modern times. Euripides was the son of Mnesarchus. The family owned property on the island...
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Balaustion's Adventure: Including a Transcript from Euripides
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
...Adventure: Including a Transcript from Euripides, by R. Browning , published 1871...that Balaustion can recite a play by Euripides . The play is Alcestis , a performance...Browning is thus able to represent Euripides' play in his own interpretation, within...
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Gilbert Murray
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...x2014; including Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes — and in...Hellenism and the Modern World (1953). His Euripides and His Age (1918) is considered on...the subject down to earth, and made Euripides a compelling flesh-and-blood figure...
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Western drama
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Sophocles' format being continued by Euripides , the last of the great classical Greek...from the time of Aeschylus to that of Euripides, there was a marked tendency toward realism. Euripides' characters are ordinary, not godlike...
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Aristophanes
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...sophistry and Socrates alike, satirized Euripides' art as degenerate, and deplored the...especially astute in his parodies of Euripides. Eleven of his plays survive: The Acharnians...in which the women conspire to ruin Euripides because of his misogyny; The Frogs...
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