TY - BOOK ID - 17237013 TI - The passions in play : Thyestes and the dynamics of Senecan drama PY - 2003 SN - 052181801X 9780521768399 052176839X 9780511676437 9781107646612 9780511677403 0511677405 0511681895 9780511681899 0511683871 9780511683879 0511676433 9780511679919 0511679912 1107209242 1282536273 9786612536274 0511678665 0521037654 051118090X 0511061250 0511326483 051148237X 1280434473 0511205058 0511069715 1107646618 9780521818018 9780511061257 9780511069710 9780511482373 9781280434471 9780511205057 9780511326486 0511739702 PB - Cambridge: Cambridge university press, DB - UniCat KW - Thyestes (Greek mythology) in literature. KW - Tragedy. KW - Latin drama (Tragedy) KW - History and criticism KW - Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, KW - Euripides KW - Greek drama (Tragedy) KW - Tragédie grecque KW - Tragedies. KW - Tragédie grecque KW - Euripides. KW - Thyestes (Greek mythology) in literature KW - Tragedy KW - Drama KW - History and criticism. KW - Histoire et critique KW - Tragédie grecque. KW - Ėvripid KW - Yūrībīdīs KW - Euripide KW - Euripedes KW - Eŭripido KW - Eurypides KW - Euripidesu KW - אוריפידס KW - エウリーピデース KW - Εὐριπίδης KW - Arts and Humanities KW - History KW - Thyestes, KW - In literature. KW - Tragédie grecque. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:17237013 AB - In this book Professor Mastronarde draws on the seventeen surviving tragedies of Euripides, as well as the fragmentary remains of his lost plays, to explore key topics in the interpretation of the plays. It investigates their relation to the Greek poetic tradition and to the social and political structures of their original setting, aiming both to be attentive to the great variety of the corpus and to identify commonalities across it. In examining such topics as genre, structural strategies, the chorus, the gods, rhetoric, and the portrayal of women and men, this study highlights the ways in which audience responses are manipulated through the use of plot structures and the multiplicity of viewpoints expressed. It argues that the dramas of Euripides, through their dramatic technique, pose a strong challenge to simple formulations of norms, to the reading of consistent human character, and to the quest for certainty and closure. ER -