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The Bacchae and Other Plays
The Bacchae and Other Plays
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Author: Euripides Translated by: John Davie & Richard Rutherford Introduction by: John Davie & Richard Rutherford Publisher: Penguin Books Format: Softcover # of Pages: 360 Pub. Date: 2006 ISBN-10: 0140447261 ISBN-13: 9780140447262
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About the Plays:
The plays of Euripides have stimulated audiences since the fifth century BC. This volume, containing Phoenician Women, Bacchae, Iphigenia at Aulis, Orestes, and Rhesus completes the new editions of Euripides in Penguin Classics.
Features a general introduction, individual prefaces to each play, chronology, notes, bibliography, and glossary.
About the Playwright:
Euripides was one of the
three great tragedians of classical Athens, the other two being
Aeschylus and Sophocles. Some ancient scholars attributed ninety-five
plays to him, of these, eighteen or nineteen have survived complete.
Euripides is identified with theatrical innovations that have
profoundly influenced drama down to modern times, especially in the
representation of traditional, mythical heroes as ordinary people in
extraordinary circumstances. This new approach led him to pioneer
developments that later writers adapted to comedy, some of which are
characteristic of romance. |
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