Grief Lessons

Grief Lessons

Publisher: New York Review of Books

Published: 2006

Type: BOOK

The volume also contains brief introductions by Carson to each of the plays along with two remarkable framing essays: “Tragedy: A Curious Art Form” and “Why I Wrote Two Plays About Phaidra.”

Euripides and the Poetics of Sorrow

Euripides and the Poetics of Sorrow

Publisher: Duke University Press Books

Published: 1993-10-19

Type: BOOK

Alcestis, Hippolytus, and Hecuba, the three early plays interpreted here, are linked by common themes of violence, death, lamentation and mourning, and by their implicit definitions of male and female roles.

The Noose of Words

The Noose of Words

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1990-04-27

Type: BOOK

This book is a new reading of Euripides' Hippolytos, a central play for the study of both Euripides and Greek tragedy.

Bakkhai

Bakkhai

Publisher: -

Published: 1995

Type: BOOK

Euripides Bakkhai presents the inner conflict between the untamed, irrational side of man represented by the god Dionysos and the rational side represented by the god Apollo.

Euripides Heraclidae

Euripides Heraclidae

Publisher: -

Published: 1993

Type: BOOK

This edition and commentary provides an invaluable introduction to one of Euripides' less well-known plays, and describes the enormous value of the text for our understanding of Athenian drama, religion, and society.

Euripidea

Euripidea

Publisher: Brill

Published: 1994

Type: BOOK

Testimonia to the life of Euripides are printed in one place for the first time, together with an English translation, making possible critical assessment of the biographical tradition.

Dionysiac Poetics and Euripides' Bacchae

Dionysiac Poetics and Euripides' Bacchae

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 1997-11-16

Type: BOOK

Includes afterword (p. 349-393) by the author: Dionysus and the Bacchae in the light of recent scholarship.