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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:
Through their sheer range, daring innovation, flawed but eloquent
characters and intriguing plots, the plays of Euripides have
stimulated and stimulated audiences since the fifth century BC. This
volume, containing Phoenician
Women, The Bacchae,
Iphigenia at Aulis,
Orestes, and Rhesus,
also includes a timeline, prefaces to each play, notes, a glossary
and guidance to further reading.
Phoenician Women portrays the rival sons of King Oedipus
and their mother's doomed attempts at reconciliation.
Orestes shows a son ravaged with guilt after the vengeful
murder of his mother.
In The Bacchae, Pentheus, the king of Thebes, mistreats a
newcomer to his land, little knowing that he is the Greek god
Dionysus disguised as a mortal.
In Iphigenia at Aulis, the Greek leaders take the horrific
decision to sacrifice a princess to gain favour from the gods in
their mission to Troy.
The Rhesus depicts a world of espionage between the warring
Greek and Trojan camps.
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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