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The text used for this edition of Euripides' Hecuba is based on the editor's own manuscript studies; a prose translation, introduction and detailed commentary are provided. The introduction and the commentary treat the structure of the play and its parts, the interpretation of it, and also problems of staging it; they also give historical and factual information. They are written in such a way that they can also be used by readers without a knowledge of Greek. Troja ist gefallen, alle Männer erschlagen und ihre Frauen auf dem Weg in die Sklaverei. Polyxene, Tochter der Königin Hekabe, wird auf dem Grab des Achilleus geopfert, nachdem ihre Mutter vergeblich versucht hat, ihr Leben zu retten. Polydoros, jüngster Sohn des Königs Priamos, war von den Eltern mit einem Goldschatz bei dem Thrakerkönig Polymestor in Sicherheit gebracht worden, doch nach dem Fall der Stadt tötete der König das Kind und eignete sich das Gold an. Als die leidgeprüfte Hekabe dies erfährt, lockt sie ihn zu sich, blendet ihn und tötet seine beiden Söhne. Das Menschenopfer, die grausame Blutrache und die Düsterkeit der hier dargestellten Welt, aus der sich die Götter anscheinend zurückgezogen haben, mögen den modernen Zuschauer und Leser befremden. Man kann aber zu einem historisch angemesseneren Verständnis dieses "schwärzesten Stückes des Euripides" gelangen, wenn man versucht, es mit den Augen der Zeitgenossen zu sehen.

Hecuba (Legendary character) --- Trojan War --- Euripides. --- Hecuba, --- Ecuba, --- Hecabe, --- Hécube, --- Hekaba, --- Hekabē, --- Hekabo, --- Hekuba, --- 赫库芭, --- ヘカベー, --- הקובה, --- 헤카베, --- Гекаба, --- Гекуба, --- Хекаба, --- Хекуба, --- هکابه, --- هيكوبا, --- Ἑκάβη, --- Euripides - Hecuba --- Hecuba - Queen of Sparta

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Hecuba (Legendary character) --- Queens --- Trojan War --- Drama. --- Royalty --- Rulers --- Sovereigns --- Monarchy --- Women --- Courts and courtiers --- Empresses --- Kings and rulers --- Drama --- Hecuba (Legendary character) - Drama --- Queens - Troy (Extinct city) - Drama --- Trojan War - Drama

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Playing for time explores connections between theatre time, the historical moment and fictional time. Geraldine Cousin persuasively argues that a crucial characteristic of contemporary British theatre is its preoccupation with instability and danger, and traces images of catastrophe and loss in a wide range of recent plays and productions.The diversity of the texts that are examined is a major strength of the book. In addition to plays by contemporary dramatists, Cousin analyses staged adaptations of novels, and productions of plays by Euripides, Strindberg and Priestley. A key focus is Stephe

English drama --- Missing children --- Children --- Missing persons --- English literature --- History and criticism. --- Themes, motives. --- An Inspector Calls. --- Beslan massacre. --- Far Away. --- Frozen. --- Hecuba. --- Soham murders. --- fictional time. --- historical moment. --- lost children. --- theatre time.

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In recent years, the rise of fundamentalism and a related turn to religion in the humanities have led to a powerful resurgence of interest in the problem of political theology. In a critique of this contemporary fascination with the theological underpinnings of modern politics, Victoria Kahn proposes a return to secularism-whose origins she locates in the art, literature, and political theory of the early modern period-and argues in defense of literature and art as a force for secular liberal culture. Kahn draws on theorists such as Carl Schmitt, Leo Strauss, Walter Benjamin, and Hannah Arendt and their readings of Shakespeare, Hobbes, Machiavelli, and Spinoza to illustrate that the dialogue between these modern and early modern figures can help us rethink the contemporary problem of political theology. Twentieth-century critics, she shows, saw the early modern period as a break from the older form of political theology that entailed the theological legitimization of the state. Rather, the period signaled a new emphasis on a secular notion of human agency and a new preoccupation with the ways art and fiction intersected the terrain of religion.

Political theology. --- Politics in literature. --- Theology in literature. --- European literature --- History and criticism. --- fundamentalism, religion, political theology, politics, secularism, art, literature, hannah arendt, walter benjamin, leo strauss, carl schmitt, spinoza, machiavelli, shakespeare, hobbes, state, power, authority, legitimacy, agency, history, philosophy, nonfiction, kingship, monarchy, royalty, hamlet, hecuba, freud, renaissance, imagination, liberation, oppression, revolution, rebellion, resistance, aesthetics.

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Abused dogs, prisoners tortured in Guantánamo and supermax facilities, or slaves killed by the state--all are deprived of personhood through legal acts. Such deprivations have recurred throughout history, and the law sustains these terrors and banishments even as it upholds the civil order. Examining such troubling cases, The Law Is a White Dog tackles key societal questions: How does the law construct our identities? How do its rules and sanctions make or unmake persons? And how do the supposedly rational claims of the law define marginal entities, both natural and supernatural, including ghosts, dogs, slaves, terrorist suspects, and felons? Reading the language, allusions, and symbols of legal discourse, and bridging distinctions between the human and nonhuman, Colin Dayan looks at how the law disfigures individuals and animals, and how slavery, punishment, and torture create unforeseen effects in our daily lives. Moving seamlessly across genres and disciplines, Dayan considers legal practices and spiritual beliefs from medieval England, the North American colonies, and the Caribbean that have survived in our legal discourse, and she explores the civil deaths of felons and slaves through lawful repression. Tracing the legacy of slavery in the United States in the structures of the contemporary American prison system and in the administrative detention of ghostly supermax facilities, she also demonstrates how contemporary jurisprudence regarding cruel and unusual punishment prepared the way for abuses in Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo. Using conventional historical and legal sources to answer unconventional questions, The Law Is a White Dog illuminates stark truths about civil society's ability to marginalize, exclude, and dehumanize.

Law --- Civil rights --- Torture --- Slavery --- Persons (Law) --- Law of persons --- Personality (Law) --- Status (Law) --- Acts, Legislative --- Enactments, Legislative --- Laws (Statutes) --- Legislative acts --- Legislative enactments --- Jurisprudence --- Legislation --- Social aspects. --- Law and legislation --- American prison system. --- Constitution. --- Hecuba. --- Herman Melville. --- Judeo-Christian. --- animal treatment. --- animals. --- appellate cases. --- banishment. --- chattels. --- civil death. --- civil existence. --- civil ghost. --- degradation. --- deprivation. --- dignity. --- dogs. --- domesticated animals. --- felon. --- felons. --- genocide. --- ghosts. --- human chattels. --- human empathy. --- human rights. --- illegal practices. --- incarceration. --- inferiority. --- juridical diminution. --- larceny. --- lawful repression. --- legal boundaries. --- legal protections. --- legal rituals. --- legality. --- modern law. --- modernity. --- negative personhood. --- personal identity. --- personal rights. --- post-Magna Carta. --- property. --- punishment. --- punishments. --- religious fictions. --- restitution. --- servitude. --- slave law. --- slave. --- slavery. --- slaves. --- social death. --- social marginalization. --- spectral emanations. --- supermax penitentiary. --- taxonomies. --- torture. --- untamed animals. --- war on terror. --- wills.