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Euripides
The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
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Euripides (485–406 bc), Greek tragedian of whose 92 plays only 19 survive. The plays of Euripides are characterized by an ambivalent attitude towards the national religious myths, which he sometimes seems to deploy purely for their dramatic potential. He is also unusually successful in his characterization of ordinary human beings. The plays are:
Alcestis, Medea, Hippolytus, Andromache, Hecuba, The Trojan Women, The Phoenician Women, Orestes, The Bacchae, Rhesus, Helen, The Children of Heracles, Heracles, The Suppliant Women, Iphigenia in Aulis, Iphigenia in Tauris, Ion, and
Cyclops. Milton's
Samson Agonistes was the first English tragedy to show his influence.
Dryden praised his depiction of human behaviour, and
Shelley translated his satyr play
Cyclops. But it was at the end of the 19th cent. that Euripides truly made his mark. W.
Morris sentimentalized the
Medea in
The Life and Death of Jason (1867) and the
Alcestis in
The Earthly Paradise (1868–70). R.
Browning, commenting on the
Alcestis, arraigned Admetus in
Balaustion's Adventure (1871) and defended Euripides in
Aristophanes' Apology (1875). G.
Murray's translations (1904–8) scored a remarkable theatrical success. More recently,
Alcestis is used by T. S.
Eliot in
The Cocktail Party; W.
Soyinka produced a notable version of the
Bacchae, and elements of this story have appeared in many other works, including the novels of
de Bernières.
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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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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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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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Euripides is given a kicking ; THEATRE
Newspaper article from: Evening Standard - London; 1/12/2009; ; 572 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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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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GREEK DIG PINPOINTS PROBABLE CAVE USED BY AUTHOR EURIPIDES.(News/National/International)
Newspaper article from: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO); 1/19/1997; 561 words
; ...the island cave where the playwright Euripides probably wrote some of his ancient masterpieces...week. Historical evidence has indicated Euripides, the latest of three great Athenian...south of the island. ``The pot with Euripides's name is a unique find which adds...
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Euripides' The Bacchae by Kneehigh Theatre
Magazine article from: Western European Stages; 4/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; Euripides' The Bacchae by Kneehigh Theatre Kneehigh...Hammersmith with their adaptation of Euripides' The Bacchae last fall (I saw the performance...poetry, songs, and dialogue inspired by Euripides' original." This approach changed...
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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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