Name: The Reception and Performance of Euripides' Herakles: Reasoning Madness (Oxford Classical Monographs) (en Inglés)
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Author: Kathleen Riley
ISBN: 9780199534487

portada The Reception and Performance of Euripides' Herakles: Reasoning Madness (Oxford Classical Monographs) (en Inglés)

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Libro Físico

Editorial

Oxford University Press

Autor

Kathleen Riley

Año

2008

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

398

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

Peso

ISBN

0199534489

ISBN13

9780199534487

N° edición

Categorías

Obras de teatro clásicas y anteriores al siglo xx

The Reception and Performance of Euripides' Herakles: Reasoning Madness (Oxford Classical Monographs) (en Inglés)

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Euripides' Herakles, which tells the story of the hero's sudden descent into filicidal madness, is one of the least familiar and least performed plays in the Greek tragic canon. Kathleen Riley explores its reception and performance history from the fifth century BC to AD 2006. Her focus is upon changing ideas of Heraklean madness, its causes, its consequences, and its therapy. Writers subsequent to Euripides have tried to 'reason' or make sense of the madness, often in accordance with contemporary thinking on mental illness. She concurrently explores how these attempts have, in the process, necessarily entailed redefining Herakles' heroism.Riley demonstrates that, in spite of its relatively infrequent staging, the Herakles has always surfaced in historically charged circumstances - Nero's Rome, Shakespeare's England, Freud's Vienna, Cold-War and post-9/11 America - and has had an undeniable impact on the history of ideas. As an analysis of heroism in crisis, a tragedy about the greatest of heroes facing an abyss of despair but ultimately finding redemption through human love and friendship, the play resonates powerfully with individuals and communities at historical and ethical crossroads.