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.
Download or read book Iphigenia in Aulis written by Euripides and published by Plays for Performance. This book was released on 1997 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agamemnon's sacrifice of his daughter in order to ensure the good fortune of his forces in the Trojan War is, despite its heroic background, in many respects a domestic tragedy. Plays for Performance Series.
Download or read book Iphigenia at Aulis written by Euripides and published by Aris and Phillips Classical Te. This book was released on 2017 with total page 687 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First English edition with commentary on one of Euripides' finest texts for 125 years, comprising two volumes sold together as a set (Volume 1: Introduction, Text and Translation; Volume 2: Commentary and Indexes).
Download or read book The Complete Plays of Jean Racine written by Jean Racine and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2015-10-13 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the third volume of a projected translation into English of all twelve of Jean Racine’s plays—only the third time such a project has been undertaken. For this new translation, Geoffrey Alan Argent has rendered these plays in the verse form that Racine might well have used had he been English: namely, the “heroic” couplet. Argent has exploited the couplet’s compressed power and flexibility to produce a work of English literature, a verse drama as gripping in English as Racine’s is in French. Complementing the translation are the illuminating Discussion, intended as much to provoke discussion as to provide it, and the extensive Notes and Commentary, which offer their own fresh and thought-provoking insights. In Iphigenia, his ninth play, Racine returns to Greek myth for the first time since Andromache. To Euripides’s version of the tale he adds a love interest between Iphigenia and Achilles. And dissatisfied with the earlier resolutions of the Iphigenia myth (her actual death or her eleventh-hour rescue by a dea ex machina), Racine creates a wholly original character, Eriphyle, who, in addition to providing an intriguing new denouement, serves the dual dramatic purpose of triangulating the love interest and galvanizing the wholesome “family values” of this play by a jolt of supercharged passion.
Download or read book Iphigenia in Splott written by Gary Owen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-10-03 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is gonna happen, when we can't take it anymore? Stumbling down the street drunk at 11.30am Effie is the kind of girl you avoid making eye contact with. You think you know her, but maybe you don't know half of it. Effie's life is a mess of drink, drugs and drama every night, and a hangover worse than death the next day – till one night gives her the chance to be something more. Gary Owen's critically acclaimed and powerful monodrama inspired by the Greek myth opens at the Lyric after a smash-hit season at the Sherman Theatre in Wales and later the National Theatre, winning the Best New Play at the UK Theatre Awards 2015. This edition was published to coincide with the production at the Lyric Hammersmith, London, in September 2022.
Download or read book Iphigenia written by Peter Seth Bauer and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 58 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
Download or read book Jean Racine Four Greek Plays written by Jean Racine and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1982-04-29 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the best translation into English of Andromache, Iphigenia, Phaedra and Athaliah.
Download or read book Iphigenia written by Jean Racine and published by Digireads.Com. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 17th century dramatist Jean Racine was considered, along with Moliere and Corneille, as one of the three great playwrights of his era. The quality of Racine's poetry has been described as possibly his most important contribution to French literature and his use of the alexandrine poetic line is one of the best examples of such use noted for its harmony, simplicity and elegance. While critics over the centuries have debated the worth of Jean Racine, at present, he is widely considered a literary genius of revolutionary proportions. In this volume of Racine's plays we find "Iphigenia," the ninth of twelve plays by the author. After a series of historical dramas Racine choose to return to mythological subject matter for his ninth play. As Agamemnon, King of the Greeks, prepares his navy to attack Troy, the gods quell the winds for their journey and demand the sacrifice of Iphigenia, Agamemnon's daughter. Based in part on Euripides' "Iphigenia in Aulis," Racine departs somewhat by substituting an alternative dramatic solution for the ending.
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.
Download or read book Adventures with Iphigenia in Tauris written by Edith Hall and published by Oxford University Press (UK). This book was released on 2013-01-10 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a cultural history of the Greek tragedy and its influence on subsequent Greek and Roman art and literature.
Download or read book Iphigenia in Tauris written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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.
Download or read book The Plays of Euripides in English Introduction The cyclops Hecuba The Trojan dames Helen Electra Orestes Andromache Iphigenia in Aulis Iphigenia in Tauris written by Euripides and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Commentary on Euripides Iphigenia in Tauris written by Poulheria Kyriakou and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-02-14 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is the first major commentary on Euripides' Iphigenia in Tauris to appear in English in more than 65 years. It offers detailed analysis of a fascinating play that scholars so far had considered mainly as a source of information about Athenian cult and viewed as a romantic adventure story with happy end. Apart from including sober assessments of textual, linguistic and metrical problems, the commentary sheds new light on the play’s treatment of myth, its intricate structure, presentation of character, and place in Euripides’ work. In particular it offers fresh insights into the play’s relationship to the literary tradition, especially its treatment of the crimes of the Pelopids, and its presentation of the complex, ambiguous relationship of humans and gods as well as that of Greeks and barbarians. Unlike most other tragedies, Iphigenia in Tauris does not feature any villain and avoids concentrating on past crimes and their corrosive influence on the characters’ present. The Taurians are not portrayed simply as savage and slow barbarians and Iphigenia, the most intelligent character, fails to transcend her limitations. Religion and cult in both myth and contemporary Athens are a mixture of traditional and invented elements and the play as a whole turns out to be an intriguing and unique experiment in Euripides’ career.
Download or read book Iphigenia at Aulis written by Euripides and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-08-21 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Euripides is known in literature & fiction circles as a Greek tragedian of classical Athens. Euripides is one of the few whose dramas & plays have survived. Ancient & medieval scholars have attributed 95 dramas & plays to Euripides, of which 19 are known to have survived more or less complete. Euripides is identified with theatrical innovations that have profoundly influenced drama & plays down to modern times. He was unique among the writers of ancient & medieval Athens for the sympathy he demonstrated towards all victims of society, including women. Iphigenia in Aulis is a Greek drama & play that revolves around Agamemnon, the leader of the Greek coalition before and during the Trojan War, and his decision to sacrifice his daughter, Iphigenia, to appease the goddess Artemis and allow his troops to set sail to preserve their honor in battle against Troy. Iphigenia in Aulis is a Greek tragedy by Euripides that was posthumously produced with extensive interpolations.
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.
Download or read book Euripides Iphigeneia at Aulis written by Euripides and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-17 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Treating ancient plays as living drama. Classical Greek drama is brought vividly to life in this series of new translations. Students are encouraged to engage with the text through detailed commentaries, including suggestions for discussion and analysis. Numerous practical questions stimulate ideas on staging and encourage students to explore the play's dramatic qualities. Iphigeneia at Aulis is suitable for students of Classical Civilisation and Drama. Features include a full synopsis of the play, commentary alongside translation for easy reference and a comprehensive introduction to the Greek Theatre. Iphigeneia at Aulis is aimed at A-level and undergraduate students in the UK, and college students in North America.
