Euripides' Medea , produced in the year that the Peloponnesian War began, presents the first in a parade of vivid female tragic protagonists across the Euripidean stage. Throughout the centuries it has been regarded as one of the most powerful of the Greek tragedies. McDermott's starting point is an assessment of the character of Medea herself. She confronts the question: What does an audience do with a tragic protagonist who is at once heroic, sympathetic, and morally repugnant? We see that the play portrays a world from ...
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Euripides' Medea , produced in the year that the Peloponnesian War began, presents the first in a parade of vivid female tragic protagonists across the Euripidean stage. Throughout the centuries it has been regarded as one of the most powerful of the Greek tragedies. McDermott's starting point is an assessment of the character of Medea herself. She confronts the question: What does an audience do with a tragic protagonist who is at once heroic, sympathetic, and morally repugnant? We see that the play portrays a world from which all order has been deliberately and pointedly removed and in which the very reality or even potentiality of order is implicitly denied. Euripides' plays invert, subvert, and pervert traditional assertions of order; they challenge their audience's most basic tenets and assumptions about the moral, social, and civic fabric of mankind and replace them with a new vision based on clearly articulated values of his own. One who seeks for "meaning" in this tragedy will come closest to finding it by examining everything in the play (characters, their actions, choruses, mythic plots and allusions to myth, place within literary traditions and use of conventions) in close conjunction with a feasible reconstruction of the audience's expectations in each regard, for we see that it is a keynote of Euripides' dramaturgy to fail to fulfill these expectations. This study proceeds from the premise that Medea's murder of her children is the key to the play. We see that the introduction of this murder into the Medea-saga was Euripides' own innovation. We see that the play's themes include the classic opposition of Man and Woman. Finally, we see that in Greek culture the social order is maintained by strict adherence within the family to the rule that parents and children reciprocally nurture one another in their respective ages of helplessness. Through the heroine's repeated assaults on this fundamental and sacred value, the playwright most persuasively portrays her as an incarnation of disorder. This book is for all students and scholars of Greek literature, whether in departments of Classics or English or Comparative Literature, as well as those concerned with the role of women in literature.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. 8vo. ix, 156pp, index, glossary, notes. Or maroon cloth in jacket. Spine faded, some foxing to page edges. An examination of the play "Medea".
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VG-/VG-(Ex-library with stamps and labels on spine, inside front and rear covers, ffep and block. Light shelfwear to boards, block. Fading to dj. Pages are otherwise clean. ) Plum cloth boards with silver spine lettering; Light gray and purple illustrated dj; mylar cover; 156 pp. This book examines the implications of Medea's murder of her children and attempts to establish the centrality of that act in Euripides' design. The author stresses the importance of trophe--the mutual bond of dependency between parent and child, between city-state and citizen--as a fundamental adhesive force in civilization, shockingly subverted by the playwright's presentation of a mother destroying her children. Contents: Medea Teknophonos: the sources--The revelation--Medea as Gune en gunaixin--Kai ta dokethent ouk etelesthe--Familial trophe--Civic trophe.
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