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Euripides.
Orestes was one of Euripides' most popular plays in antiquity. Its plot, which centres on Orestes' murder of his mother Clytemnestra and its aftermath, is exciting as well as morally complex; its presentation of madness is unusually intense and disturbing; it deals with politics in a way w...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Bloomsbury Publishing,
2013.
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| Colección: | Companions to Greek and Roman tragedy.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Orestes was one of Euripides' most popular plays in antiquity. Its plot, which centres on Orestes' murder of his mother Clytemnestra and its aftermath, is exciting as well as morally complex; its presentation of madness is unusually intense and disturbing; it deals with politics in a way which has resonances for both ancient and modern democracies; and, it has a brilliantly unexpected and ironic ending. Nevertheless, ""Orestes"" is not much read or performed in modern times. Why should this be so? Perhaps it is because ""Orestes"" does not conform to modern audiences' expectations of what a 'G. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (177 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9781472521262 1472521269 |