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LEADER: 01760cam a22002778a 4500
001 2009036884
003 DLC
005 20100317141857.0
008 090904s2009 cau b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2009036884
020 $a9780520261792 (cloth : alk. paper)
020 $a9780520261822 (pbk. : alk. paper)
040 $aDLC$cDLC
050 00 $aPA3978$b.W35 2009
082 00 $a882/.01$222
100 1 $aWalton, J. Michael,$d1939-
245 10 $aEuripides our contemporary /$cJ. Michael Walton.
260 $aBerkeley :$bUniversity of California Press,$cc2009.
263 $a0911
300 $ap. cm.
500 $a"This edition first published in the United Kingdom in 2009 by Methuen Drama, A & C Black Publishers ... London."
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aPlaymaker and innovator -- The family saga : Phoenician Women, Bacchae, Iphigeneia at Aulis -- Women and men : Alcestis, Medea, Hippolytus, Andromache -- The comic touch : Cyclops, Ion, Electra, Children of Heracles, Helen -- War and the military : Rhesus, Trojan Women, Suppliants, Iphigeneia at Aulis -- Revenge : Hecuba, Children of Heracles, Medea -- Immortals and mortals : Hecuba, Hippolytus, Ion, Heracles, Trojan Women -- Sanity, madness and responsibility : Orestes, Heracles, Bacchae, Hippolytus, Trojan Women, Electra -- Playing the game ; illusion and reality : Iphigeneia among the Taurians, Alcestis, Ion, Bacchae, Helen -- Great roles : Medea, Alcestis, Heracles, Hippolytus, Iphigeneia at Aulis, Hecuba, Electra, Helen, Bacchae -- Heirs to the legacy : Shaw, Strindberg, Brecht, Pirandello, Anouilh, Sondheim, Frisch.
600 00 $aEuripides$xCriticism and interpretation.
650 0 $aMythology, Greek, in literature.
650 0 $aTragedy.