Euripides our contemporary
By: J. Michael Walton.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780520261792; 9780520261822
Subjects: Euripides -- Criticism and interpretation; Mythology, Greek, in literature; Tragedy
Notes: "This edition first published in the United Kingdom in 2009 by Methuen Drama, A & C Black Publishers ... London."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Playmaker and innovator; title: The family saga : Phoenician Women, Bacchae, Iphigeneia at Aulis; title: Women and men : Alcestis, Medea, Hippolytus, Andromache; title: The comic touch : Cyclops, Ion, Electra, Children of Heracles, Helen; title: War and the military : Rhesus, Trojan Women, Suppliants, Iphigeneia at Aulis; title: Revenge : Hecuba, Children of Heracles, Medea; title: Immortals and mortals : Hecuba, Hippolytus, Ion, Heracles, Trojan Women; title: Sanity, madness and responsibility : Orestes, Heracles, Bacchae, Hippolytus, Trojan Women, Electra; title: Playing the game ; illusion and reality : Iphigeneia among the Taurians, Alcestis, Ion, Bacchae, Helen; 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.