The reception and performance of Euripides Herakles
Subtitle: reasoning madness
By: Kathleen Riley.
Series: Oxford classical monographs
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 398
ISBN-13: 9780199534487
Subjects: Euripides; Heracles (Greek mythology) in literature; Heracles (Greek mythology) -- Drama; Mental illness in literature
Genres: Drama.
Notes: "This book began life as an Oxford D.Phil. thesis"--Pref.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : reasoning madness and redefining the hero; title: No longer himself : the tragic fall of Euripides Herakles; title: Let the monster be mine : Seneca and the internalization of imperial furor; title: A peculiar compound : Hercules as Renaissance man; title: Even the earth is not room enough : Herculean selfhood on the Elizabethan stage; title: Sophist, sceptic, sentimentalist : the nineteenth century damnatio of Euripides; title: The Browning version : Aristophanes apology and the perfect piece; title: The psychological hero : Herakles lost self and the creation of nervenkunst; title: Herakles apotheosis : the tragedy of superman; title: The Herakles complex : a Senecan diagnosis of the family annihilator; title: Creating a Herakles for our times : a montage of modern madness; title: Appendix 1 : Heraklean madness on the modern stage : a chronology; title: Appendix 2 : the reading school play.