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Book Iphigenia

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  • Author : Teresa de la Parra
  • Publisher : University of Texas Press
  • Release : 1993
  • ISBN : 0292715714
  • Pages : 374 pages

Download or read book Iphigenia written by Teresa de la Parra and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Maria Eugenia Alonso, a girl brought up in France and forced to return to Venezuela when her father dies. Having had her inheritance stolen by an uncle, the family puts her up for marriage. Written in 1924.

Book Iphigenia among the Taurians  Bacchae  Iphigenia at Aulis  Rhesus

Download or read book Iphigenia among the Taurians Bacchae Iphigenia at Aulis Rhesus written by Euripides and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1999-01-28 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the second of three volumes of a new prose translation, with introduction and notes, of Euripides' most popular plays. The first three tragedies translated in this volume illustrate Euripides' extraordinary dramatic range. Iphigenia among the Taurians, set on the Black Sea at the edge of the known world, is much more than an exciting story of escape. It is remarkable for its sensitive delineation of character as it weighs Greek against barbarian civilization. Bacchae, a profound exploration of the human psyche, deals with the appalling consequences of resistance to Dionysus, god of wine and unfettered emotion. This tragedy, which above all others speaks to our post-Freudian era, is one of Euripides' two last surviving plays. The second, Iphigenia at Aulis, so vastly different as to highlight the playwright's Protean invention, centres on the ultimate dysfunctional family, that of Agamemnon, as natural emotion is tested in the tragic crucible of the Greek expedition against Troy. Rhesus, probably the work of another playwright, deals with a grisly event in the Trojan War. Like Iphigenia at Aulis, its `subject is war and the pity of war', but it is also an exciting, action-packed theatrical Iliad in miniature.

Book Iphigenia

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  • Author : Hugo Furst
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1886
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 398 pages

Download or read book Iphigenia written by Hugo Furst and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Iphigenia

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  • Author : Teresa de la Parra
  • Publisher : University of Texas Press
  • Release : 2010-07-05
  • ISBN : 0292789521
  • Pages : 374 pages

Download or read book Iphigenia written by Teresa de la Parra and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-07-05 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, Harvey L. Johnson Award, Southwest Council on Latin American Studies, 1994 "...I didn't want to tell you the truth for anything in the world, because it seemed very humiliating to me..." The truth is that Iphigenia is bored and, more than bored, buried alive in her grandmother's house in Caracas, Venezuela. After the excitement of being a beautiful, unchaperoned young woman in Paris, her father's death has sent her back to a forgotten homeland, where rigid decorum governs. Two men—the married man she adores and the wealthy fiancé she abhors—offer her escape from her prison. Which of these impossible suitors will she choose? Iphigenia was first published in 1924 in Venezuela, where it hit patriarchal society like a bomb. Teresa de la Parra was accused of undermining the morals of young women with this tale of a passionate woman who lacks the money to establish herself in the liberated, bohemian society she craves. Yet readers have kept the novel alive for decades, and this first English translation now introduces its heroine to a wider audience.

Book Iphigenia

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  • Author : Charles Stanford Elgutter
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1902
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 118 pages

Download or read book Iphigenia written by Charles Stanford Elgutter and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Iphigenia

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  • Author : P. Seth Bauer
  • Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN : 0822221500
  • Pages : 54 pages

Download or read book Iphigenia written by P. Seth Bauer and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ...rousing, crowd-pleasing...Dickens' classic becomes particularly spooky. In addition to the ghoulish specter of Jacob Marley, and the spirits of Christmas past, present and future, this version introduces a half-dozen additional ghosts. --NY Times. Michae

Book Euripides  Iphigenia among the Taurians

Download or read book Euripides Iphigenia among the Taurians written by Isabelle Torrance and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-02-07 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this new student introduction to a Greek tragedy, Isabelle Torrance looks at what makes Iphigenia among the Taurians a successful tragedy in ancient Greek terms, and how dramatic excitement is achieved through the exotic setting, the cast of characters, and the chorus. Assuming no knowledge of Greek, and with students in mind, the central themes of ethnicity and gender relations are examined to show how Euripides manipulates established stereotypes. The play was one of Aristotle's favourites and his enthusiasm derived from the fact that, in spite of its ostensibly happy ending, the play presents the audience with an exquisitely constructed reversal of events: when Iphigenia recognizes that she has been about to sacrifice her long-lost brother, kin-murder is avoided and the plot turns into an escape drama. Other significant concerns of the play surround ritual and the gods, and these are discussed to highlight how the drama asks probing theological questions. Finally, the vast reception history of the play in a variety of genres, such as ancient comedy, Roman philosophy, European opera, and 20th century theatre, is sketched out from antiquity to the present day.

Book Iphigenia in Tauris

Download or read book Iphigenia in Tauris written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1966 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Iphigenia Plays

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  • Author : Euripides
  • Publisher : Northwestern University Press
  • Release : 2018-06-15
  • ISBN : 0810137240
  • Pages : 204 pages

Download or read book The Iphigenia Plays written by Euripides and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-15 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the heart of Iphigenia’s enduring story are an ambitious, opportunistic, and indecisive leader and the daughter whose life he is willing to sacrifice. In The Iphigenia Plays, poet Rachel Hadas offers a new generation of readers a graceful, clear, and powerful translation of Euripides’s two spellbinding (and very different) plays drawn from this legend: Iphigenia in Aulis and Iphigenia among the Taurians. Even for readers unfamiliar with Greek mythology or drama, these plays are suspenseful, poignant, and haunting. Euripides’s ability to evoke emotion and raise difficult questions has long engaged viewers and readers alike. Taken together, the two plays illuminate timeless human conflicts, showcasing individuals and families ensnared by the fury of war, of politics, of religion, and of ambition. Euripidean characters are always second-guessing themselves; now new readers can also ponder their dilemmas. Poet and translator Rachel Hadas highlights the lyricism, emotion, and sheer humanity of Euripides’s plays. Mordant humor is here; so are heartbreak and tenderness. Hadas offers an Iphigenia story that resonates with our own troubled times and demonstrates anew the genius of one of the world’s supreme dramatists.

Book Triptych and Iphigenia

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  • Author : Edna O'Brien
  • Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
  • Release : 2007-12-01
  • ISBN : 0802199135
  • Pages : 121 pages

Download or read book Triptych and Iphigenia written by Edna O'Brien and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two plays by the acclaimed Irish author: an adaption of Euripides and an “emotionally bruising drama” of three women obsessed with the same man (The New York Times). Triptych With searing acuity, O’Brien presents the story of three women—a mistress, a wife, and a daughter—who are all helplessly drawn to Henry: their lover, husband, and father. While Henry himself never appears, his specter is never absent as these women confront the ways that love can simultaneously liberate and entrap. Triptych is a powerful work that explores sex, marriage, and predatory relationships. Iphigenia In this modern take on the Greek tragedy, O’Brien takes creative license with Euripides’s tale of a daughter sacrificed for the sake of war. This taut, contemporary version presents, in O’Brien’s own words, “a more equal representation of the power and presence of both male and female characters” (Edna O’Brien, Independent, UK). “Intriguingly original . . . emotionally brave and engagingly clever.” –R. Hurwitt, The San Francisco Chronicle

Book Iphigenia at Aulis by Euripides

Download or read book Iphigenia at Aulis by Euripides written by David Bolton and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-10-28 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new translation by David Bolton of Euripides' tragedy Iphigenia at Aulis. The prose and verse of the translation aim to provide an authentic rendering of the original Greek text and to maintain its spirit. The translation is accompanied by background notes, a discussion of the central characters and the part played by rhetoric in the play. There is also a translation of the text of The Origins and Life of Euripides that has been transmitted with the texts of Euripides' plays.

Book Iphigenia Among the Taurians

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  • Author : Euripides
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2014-09-10
  • ISBN : 022620376X
  • Pages : 79 pages

Download or read book Iphigenia Among the Taurians written by Euripides and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-09-10 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The brilliant and gripping classical drama of mistaken identities, divine intervention, a long-suffering family, and the rescue of a long-lost sister. I am Iphigenia, daughter of the daughter of Tyndareus. My father killed me. Few contemporary poets elicit such powerful responses from readers and critics as Anne Carson. The New York Times Book Review calls her work “personal, necessary, and important,” while Publishers Weekly says she is “nothing less than brilliant.” Her poetry—enigmatic yet approachable, deeply personal yet universal in scope, wildly mutable yet always recognizable as her distinct voice—invests contemporary concerns with the epic resonance and power of the Greek classics that she has studied, taught, and translated for decades. Iphigenia Among the Taurians is the latest in Carson’s series of translations of the plays of Euripides. Originally published as part of the third edition of Chicago’s Complete Greek Tragedies, it is published here as a stand-alone volume for the first time. In Carson’s stunning translation, Euripides’s play—full of mistaken identities, dangerous misunderstandings, and unexpected interventions by gods and men—is as fierce and fresh as any contemporary drama. Carson has accomplished one of the rarest feats of translation: maintaining fidelity to a writer’s words even as she inflects them with her own unique poetic voice. Destined to become the standard translation of the play, Iphigenia Among the Taurians is a remarkable accomplishment, and an unforgettable work of poetic drama.

Book Iphigenia in Tauris

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  • Author : Euripides
  • Publisher : Aris and Phillips Classical Te
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN : 0856686522
  • Pages : 267 pages

Download or read book Iphigenia in Tauris written by Euripides and published by Aris and Phillips Classical Te. This book was released on 2000 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Iphigenia in Tauris tells the story of the princess Iphigenia who was sacrificed by her father Agamemnon to expedite his campaign against Troy but was rescued by the goddess Artemis and transported to the land of the Taurians. There she herself must perform human sacrifices as a priestess of Artemis in the local cult.

Book Iphigenia At Aulis

Download or read book Iphigenia At Aulis written by Euripides and published by Phoemixx Classics Ebooks. This book was released on 2021-11-11 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Iphigenia At Aulis Euripides - Euripides turned to playwriting at a young age, achieving his first victory in the dramatic competitions of the Athenian City Dionysia in 441 b.c.e. He would be awarded this honor three more times in his life, and once more posthumously. Together with Aeschylus and Sophocles, Euripides would provide the canon of Greek tragedy and thereby lay the foundation of Western theatre. Eighteen of Euripides' ninety-two works remain today, making his the largest extant collection of work by an ancient playwright. "Iphigenia at Aulis" is part of a trilogy which is the last remaining work of Euripides. It was produced a year after his death by his son or nephew, and received first place at the Athenian City Dionysia. The story takes place before and during the Trojan War, when Agamemnon must decide whether or not to sacrifice his daughter, Iphigenia, for the sake of Troy's honor. It explores timeless themes of honor, sacrifice, hypocrisy and courage.

Book The Iphigenia Quartet

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  • Author : Caroline Bird
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2016-04-29
  • ISBN : 1783193212
  • Pages : 124 pages

Download or read book The Iphigenia Quartet written by Caroline Bird and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agamemnon must sacrifice his daughter, Clytemnestra must try to stop him, Iphigenia must accept her fate, the Chorus must watch. Ships lie dormant in harbours, and thousands of troops sit on the shore, growing restless and unruly. Helen is gone, and pursuit of her has been stalled by windless seas. To raise the winds to send his fleet to Troy, Agamemnon is commanded by the gods to sacrifice his daughter, Iphigenia. But his deceit of his wife, Clytemnestra and the killing of his child, will end up tearing him and everything around him to pieces. Euripides’ story of a father moved to murder his daughter, Iphigenia at Aulis, is one that has been reinvented and retold anew throughout history. The Iphigenia Quartet sees four of the UK’s most exciting and radical playwrights - Caroline Bird, Suhayla El Bushra, Lulu Raczka, and Chris Thorpe – create explosive responses to this classical tragedy. Each play is a reimagining this story of familial catastrophe from the differing perspectives of the key characters in the play: Agamemnon, Clytemnestra, Iphigenia and the Chorus.

Book Iphigenia in Tauris

Download or read book Iphigenia in Tauris written by Euripides and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proof, corrected, and inscribed "To Gladys, Fellow Olympian, from Hal, 1957." Witter Bynner's translation into English of Euripides's Iphigenia in Taurica.

Book Iphigenia in Delphi

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  • Author : Richard Garnett
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1890
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 108 pages

Download or read book Iphigenia in Delphi written by Richard Garnett and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: