| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 398 pages) : illustrations |
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Oxford classical monographs |
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Oxford classical monographs.
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| Contents |
'No longer himself': the tragic fall of Euripides' Herakles -- 'Let the monster be mine': Seneca and the internalization of imperial furor -- A peculiar compound: Hercules as Renaissance man -- 'Even the earth is not room enough': Herculean selfhood on the Elizabethan stage -- Sophist, sceptic, sentimentalist: the nineteenth-century damnatio of Euripides -- The Browning version: Aristophanes' Apology and 'the perfect piece' -- The psychological hero: Herakles' lost self and the creation of Nervenkunst -- Herakles' apotheosis: the tragedy of Superman -- The Herakles complex: a Senecan diagnosis of the 'Family Annihilator' -- Creating a Herakles for our times: a montage of modern madness |
| Summary |
Euripides' Herakles, which tells the story of the hero's sudden descent into filicidal madness, is one of the least familiar and least performed plays in the Greek tragic canon. Kathleen Riley's study is the first to examine the reception and performance history of Euripides' Herakles from the fifth century BC to AD 2006. Riley demonstrates that, in spite of its infrequent staging, the Herakles has always surfaced in historically charged circumstances - Nero's Rome, Shakespeare's England, Freud's Vienna, Cold War and post-9/11 America - and as had an impact on the history of ideas |
| Analysis |
Humaniora Historie |
| Notes |
"This book began life as an Oxford D. Phil. thesis"--Preface |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 368-387) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Euripides. Heracles.
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Heracles (Greek mythological character) -- In literature
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Heracles (Greek mythological character) -- Drama
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| SUBJECT |
Heracles (Greek mythological character) fast |
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Heracles (Euripides) fast |
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Mental illness in literature.
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DRAMA -- Ancient, Classical & Medieval.
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Literature
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Mental illness in literature
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Heracles (Euripides)
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Receptie.
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Voorstellingen (uitvoerende kunsten)
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| Genre/Form |
Drama
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Drama.
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Théâtre.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191560019 |
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0191560014 |
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9780191715945 |
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0191715948 |
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