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Tragedys End : Closure and Innovation in Euripidean Drama.
Euripides is a notoriously problematic and controversial playwright whose innovations, according to Nietzsche, brought Greek tragedy to an early death. Dunn here argues that the infamous and artificial endings in Euripides deny the viewer access to a stable or authoritative reading of the play, whil...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford University Press, USA
1996.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Euripides is a notoriously problematic and controversial playwright whose innovations, according to Nietzsche, brought Greek tragedy to an early death. Dunn here argues that the infamous and artificial endings in Euripides deny the viewer access to a stable or authoritative reading of the play, while innovations in plot and ending opened tragedy up to a medley of comic, parodic, and narrative impulses. Part One explores the dramatic and metadramatic uses of novel closing gestures, such as aetiology, closing prophecy, exit lines of the chorus, and deus ex machina. Part Two shows how experimenta. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-244)) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 1280443553 9781280443558 0195344774 9780195344776 1602566240 9781602566248 |