Euripides Plays: 6 : Hippolytos; Suppliants and Rhesos Paperback / softback
by Euripides
Part of the Classical Dramatists series
Paperback / softback
Description
Published in the new Methuen Classical Dramatists series A dramatist whose trademark was the unexpected, Euripides has constantly challenged and intrigued audiences, from Athens of the fifth century BC to the present.
The three plays in this volume demonstrate Euripides' versatility.
Hippolytos (which was turned into Phedre by Racine), deals with sexual passion, incest and abstinence; Suppliants (a version of the Antigone story) sets the play in Eleusis and dramatises the moment when the mothers of the dead sons of Oedipus beg Theseus to go to Thebes and demand their sons' bodies for burial.
In Rhesos, all the confusion of sentry duty, the intrigue of spies and intruders, disguises and deceptions are crammed into a single night when the fortunes of war turn against the Trojans by a mixture of devious behaviour and sheer bad luck.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:176 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:06/11/1997
- Category:
- ISBN:9780413716507
Information
-
Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:176 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:06/11/1997
- Category:
- ISBN:9780413716507
