Bakkhai
By: Euripides ; a new version by Anne Carson
Contributors: Carson, Anne, 1950- translator
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 85
ISBN-13: 9780811227100
Subjects: Drama; Bacchantes
Work titles: Bacchae
Description: "A stunning, new translation by the poet and classicist Anne Carson, first performed in 2015 at the Almeida Theatre in London. Anne Carson writes, "Euripides was a playwright of the fifth century BC who reinvented Greek tragedy, setting it on a path that leads straight to reality TV. His plays broke all the rules, upended convention and outraged conservative critics. The Bakkhai is his most subversive play, telling the story of a man who cannot admit he would rather live in the skin of a woman, and a god who seems to combine all sexualities into a single ruinous demand for adoration. Dionysos is the god of intoxication. Once you fall under his influence, there is no telling where you will end up."--