The gentle, jealous god : reading Euripides' Bacchae in English /

Euripides' Bacchae is the magnum opus of the ancient world's most popular dramatist. Yet the play is the most modern, perhaps postmodern, of ancient plays. Twentieth-century poets and playwrights often turned their hand to Bacchae, leaving the play with an especially rich and varied transl...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Perris, Simon, 1979- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2016.
Colección:Bloomsbury studies in classical reception.
Temas:
Euripides. > Bacchae.
Euripides > Translations > History and criticism.
Euripides
Bacchae (Euripides)
Classical history > classical civilisation.
Literary studies: classical, early & medieval.
DRAMA > Ancient, Classical & Medieval.
Translations
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Reading Bacchae, reading Dionysus
  • Rated R: adaptation, violence, revolution
  • Dionysus, lord and saviour: Gilbert Murray, the Bacchae of Euripides
  • Nothing to do with modernism?: H.D., "choros translations from the Bacchae"
  • Dionysus in Ireland: Derek Mahon, the Bacchae: after Euripides
  • East and west: Colin Teevan, Euripides: Bacchai
  • These go to eleven: David Greig, Euripides: the Bacchae
  • Epilogue: Robin Robertson, Euripides: Bacchae & Anne Carson, Euripides: Bakkhai.

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