Female Characters in Fragmentary Greek Tragedy

ISBN-13: 9781108495141 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 300 str.

P. J. Finglass; Lyndsay Coo

Opis

Sheds new light on the topic of women in tragedy by focusing on neglected evidence from the fragments.

Spis treści

Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction Lyndsay Coo and P. J. Finglass; Part I. Themes: 2. Female violence towards women and girls in Greek tragedy Fiona McHardy; 3. Greek tragedy and the theatre of sisterhood Lyndsay Coo; 4. Women in love in the fragmentary plays of Sophocles Alan H. Sommerstein; 5. Heterosexual bonding in the fragments of Euripides Helene P. Foley; 6. Suffering in silence: victims of rape on the tragic stage P. J. Finglass; Part II. Plays: 7. Dancing on the plain of the sea: gender and theatrical space in Aeschylus' Achilles trilogy Anna Uhlig; 8. Europe revisited: an experiment in characterisation Niall W. Slater; 9. When mothers turn bad: the perversion of the maternal ideal in Sophocles' Eurypylus Robert Cowan; 10. The music one desires: Hypsipyle and Aristophanes' 'muse of Euripides' Caleb Simone; 11. Fragmented self and fragmented responsibility: Pasiphae in Euripides' Cretans Luigi Battezzato; 12. Female agency in Euripides' Hypsipyle James H. Kim On Chong-Gossard; 13. Making Medea Medea Matthew Wright; Bibliography; Index of subjects; Index of Greek; Index of passages discussed.