Catastrophe Survived: Euripides' Plays of Mixed Reversal Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Catastrophe Survived: Euripides' Plays of Mixed Reversal Book

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.Read More

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  • 0198141866
  • 9780198141860
  • Anne Pippin Burnett
  • 2 September 1971
  • Oxford University Press
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 244
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