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ISBN10: 082231360X, ISBN13: 9780822313601, [publisher: Duke University Press] Hardcover 1994. Hardcover. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. [Olney, MD, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1993]
ISBN10: 082231360X, ISBN13: 9780822313601, [publisher: Duke University Press Books] Hardcover Book shows some very very light shelf wear otherwise would list as new. [Kingston, NY, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1993]
ISBN10: 082231360X, ISBN13: 9780822313601, [publisher: Duke University Press] Hardcover Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages. [Mishawaka, IN, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1993]
ISBN10: 082231360X, ISBN13: 9780822313601, [publisher: Duke University Press] Hardcover Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages. [Mishawaka, IN, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1993]
Wiley & Sons, Limited, John. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages. Wiley & Sons, Limited, John ISBN 082231360x 9780822313601 [US]
ISBN10: 082231360X, ISBN13: 9780822313601, [publisher: Duke University Press] Hardcover New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days. [Southport, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1993]
Hardback. New. Where is the pleasure in tragedy? This question, how suffering and sorrow become the stuff of aesthetic delight, is at the center of Charles Segal's new book, which collects and expands his recent explorations of Euripides' art.<br /><i>Alcestis, Hippolytus</i>, and <i>Hecuba</i>, the three early plays interpreted here, are linked by common themes of violence, death, lamentation and mourning, and by their implicit definitions of male and female roles. Segal shows how these plays draw on ancient traditions of poetic and ritual commemoration, particularly epic song, and at the same time refashion these traditions into new forms. In place of the epic muse of martial glory, Euripides, Segal argues, evokes a muse of sorrows who transforms the suffering of individuals into a "common grief for all the citizens," a community of shared feeling in the theater.<br /> Like his predecessors in tragedy, Euripides believes death, more than any other event, exposes the deepest truth of human nature. Segal examines the revealing final moments in <i>Alcestis, Hippolytus</i>, and <i>Hecuba</i>, and discusses the playwright's use of these deaths--especially those of women--to question traditional values and the familiar definitions of male heroism. Focusing on gender, the affective dimension of tragedy, and ritual mourning and commemoration, Segal develops and extends his earlier work on Greek ...
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