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Women on the edge : four plays / by Euripides ; translated and edited by Ruby Blondell ... [et al.].
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Euripides.
- Series:
- New classical canon.
- The new classical canon
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Helen, of Troy, Queen of Sparta--Drama.
- Helen.
- Iphigenia (Mythological character)--Drama.
- Iphigenia.
- Alcestis, Queen, consort of Admetus, King of Pherae--Drama.
- Alcestis.
- Medea, consort of Aegeus, King of Athens (Mythological character)--Drama.
- Medea.
- Euripides--Translations into English.
- Euripides.
- Greek drama (Tragedy)--Translations into English.
- Greek drama (Tragedy).
- Women--Mythology--Drama.
- Women.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (512 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 1999.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Women on the Edge, a collection of Alcestis, Medea, Helen, and Iphegenia at Aulis, provides a broad sample of Euripides' plays focusing on women, and spans the chronology of his surviving works, from the earliest, to his last, incomplete, and posthumously produced masterpiece. Each play shows women in various roles--slave, unmarried girl, devoted wife, alienated wife, mother, daughter--providing a range of evidence about the kinds of meaning and effects the category woman conveyed in ancient Athens. The female protagonists in these plays test the boundaries--literal
- Contents:
- Alcestis
- Medea
- Helen
- Iphigenia at Aulis.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9786610407545
- 9781135964610
- 1135964610
- 9781135964627
- 1135964629
- 9781280407543
- 1280407549
- 9780203906699
- 0203906691
- OCLC:
- 51113384
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