Examining the seven Euripidean tragicomdeies, this book contends that the plays' plots--compounded as they are of the opposite elements of good fortune and catastrophe--result from experimentation with a new form intended to express a characteristically Euripidean view of reality. The plays involve people scaled for comedy trying to live in a world ruled by the gods of tragedy, making efforts sometimes noble, sometimes sordid, but in the end, essentially futile. Burnett shows how Euripides manipulates tradtional scenes, ...
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Examining the seven Euripidean tragicomdeies, this book contends that the plays' plots--compounded as they are of the opposite elements of good fortune and catastrophe--result from experimentation with a new form intended to express a characteristically Euripidean view of reality. The plays involve people scaled for comedy trying to live in a world ruled by the gods of tragedy, making efforts sometimes noble, sometimes sordid, but in the end, essentially futile. Burnett shows how Euripides manipulates tradtional scenes, diverting and frustrating the expectations aroused in his audience and transforming their simple pity and terror into a response that is conscious, complex, and inescapably disturbing.
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Good+ with no dust jacket. 0198141866. Some pencil marginalia to a few pages. Former owner's name on ffep in pencil. Some adhesive residue to top of spine and front board. Else VG.; 244 pages.
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Reader copy. Ex-library hardback with dust jacket, dj a little sunned, slight lean to spine, minor shelf wear to boards, some handling marks to text block/page edges, usual library stamps/markings, otherwise good clear text, binding intact. Catastrophe Survived: Euripides' plays of mixed reversal by Anne Pippin Burnett, 234pp, published 1971 by Clarendon Press, isbn0198141866, this book concerns seven Euripidean plays usually labelled tragicomedy and frequently slighted as if their extraordinary qualities resulted from clumsiness on the part of the poet, if nore information or pictures required please contact us, ready for immediate despatch from UK. 12C*
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Very Good. 1971. Hardcover. Cloth, dj. Octavo. viii & 234 pp. Some shelf wear, scuffing, and chipping to dust jacket, with sunning to spine. Price clipped. Altogether a copy in Very Good condiiton. Very Good. (Subject: Ancient, Greek Literature).
