Euripides our contemporary
By: J. Michael Walton
Edition: University of California Press ed.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9780520261792; 9780520261822
Notes: "This edition first published in the United Kingdom in 2009 by Methuen Drama, A & C Black Publishers ... London"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Playmaker and image-breaker; title: The family saga : Phoenician women, Bacchae, Iphigeneia at Aulis; title: Women and men : Alcestis, Medea, Hippolytus; title: The comic touch : Cyclops, Ion, Electra, Bacchae children of Heracles, Helen; title: War and the military : Rhesus, Trojan women, Suppliants, Iphigeneia at Aulis; title: Revenge : Electra, Hecuba, children of Heracles, Andromache, Medea; title: Immortals and mortals : Alcestics, Iphigeneia among the Taurians, Electra, Rhesus, Ion, Hippolytus, Bacchae; title: Sanity, madness and responsibility : Orestes, Heracles, Bacchae, Electra; title: Playing the game : illusion and reality : Hecuba, Suppliants, Ion, Rhesus, Helen, Bacchae; title: Great roles : Medea, Alcestis, Heracles, Hippolytus, Iphigeneia at Aulis, Hecuba, Electra, Helen, Bacchae; title: Heirs to the legacy : Shaw, Strindberg, Brecht, Pirandello, Anouilh, Sondheim, Frisch.