The Trojan Women
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Author | : Pat Barker |
Publisher | : Anchor |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2021-08-24 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 038554670X |
A daring and timely feminist retelling of The Iliad from the perspective of the women of Troy who endured it—an extraordinary follow up to The Silence of the Girls from the Booker Prize-winning author of The Regeneration Trilogy and “one of contemporary literature’s most thoughtful and compelling writers" (The Washington Post). Troy has fallen and the victorious Greeks are eager to return home with the spoils of an endless war—including the women of Troy themselves. They await a fair wind for the Aegean. It does not come, because the gods are offended. The body of King Priam lies unburied and desecrated, and so the victors remain in suspension, camped in the shadows of the city they destroyed as the coalition that held them together begins to unravel. Old feuds resurface and new suspicions and rivalries begin to fester. Largely unnoticed by her captors, the one time Trojan queen Briseis, formerly Achilles's slave, now belonging to his companion Alcimus, quietly takes in these developments. She forges alliances when she can, with Priam's aged wife the defiant Hecuba and with the disgraced soothsayer Calchas, all the while shrewdly seeking her path to revenge.
Author | : Euripides |
Publisher | : New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages | : 84 |
Release | : 2021-05-25 |
Genre | : Comics & Graphic Novels |
ISBN | : 0811230805 |
A fantastic comic-book collaboration between the artist Rosanna Bruno and the poet Anne Carson, based on Euripides’s famous tragedy A NEW YORK TIMES BEST GRAPHIC NOVEL OF 2021 Here is a new comic-book version of Euripides’s classic The Trojan Women, which follows the fates of Hekabe, Andromache, and Kassandra after Troy has been sacked and all its men killed. This collaboration between the visual artist Rosanna Bruno and the poet and classicist Anne Carson attempts to give a genuine representation of how human beings are affected by warfare. Therefore, all the characters take the form of animals (except Kassandra, whose mind is in another world).
Author | : Euripides |
Publisher | : Good Press |
Total Pages | : 88 |
Release | : 2019-11-21 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : |
The Trojan Women also translated as The Women of Troy, and also known by its transliterated Greek title Troades, is a tragedy by the Greek playwright Euripides. Produced in 415 BC during the Peloponnesian War, it is often considered a commentary on the capture of the Aegean island of Melos and the subsequent slaughter and subjugation of its populace by the Athenians earlier that year. Excerpt: "Judged by common standards, the Troädes is far from a perfect play; it is scarcely even a good play. It is an intense study of one great situation, with little plot, little construction, and little or no relief or variety. The only movement of the drama is a gradual extinguishing of all the familiar lights of human life..."
Author | : Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780801494314 |
The play explores the folly of war, focussing on the trials of the royal family of the fallen city of Troy (Hecuba, Andromache and their children) as they mourn their past and current sufferings, and the continued assault of the Greeks on the survivors as they look to sacrifice two of the royal progeny, Polyxena and Astyanax.
Author | : Brendan Kennelly |
Publisher | : Bloodaxe Books Limited |
Total Pages | : 80 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9781852242411 |
The Irish poet adds a 20th-century spin to the Greek drama. Kennelly's version was first performed in Dublin, June 1993. Published by Bloodaxe Books (UK). Paper edition (unseen), $14.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author | : Euripides, |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 94 |
Release | : 2014-10-07 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 1408141574 |
An industrial port of a war-torn city. Women survivors wait to be shipped abroad. Officials come and go. A grandmother, once Queen, watches as her remaining family are taken from her one by one. The city burns around them. Euripides' great anti-war tragedy is published in Don Taylor's translation to coincide with the National Theatre's production directed by Katie Mitchell in the Lyttelton auditorium. This edition of the play features an introduction by the translator setting the play in its historical and dramaturgical context.
Author | : N. T. Croally |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1994-10-20 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780521464901 |
This book sets out to interpret Euripides' The Trojan Women in the light of a view of tragedy which sees its function, as it was understood in classical Athens, as being didactic. This function, the author argues, was carried out by an examination of the ideology to which the audience subscribed. The Trojan Women, powerfully exploiting the dramatic context of the aftermath of the Trojan War, is a remarkable example of tragic teaching. The play questions a series of mutually reinforcing polarities (man/god; man/woman; Greek/barbarian; free/slave) through which an Athenian citizen defined himself, and also examines the dangers of rhetoric and the value of victory in war. By making the didactic function of tragedy the basis of interpretation, the author is able to offer a coherent view of a number of long-standing problems in Euripidean and tragic criticism, namely the relation of Euripides to the sophists, the pervasive self-reference and anachronism in Euripides, the problem of contemporary reference, and the construction and importance of the tragic scene. The book, which makes use of recent scholarship both in Classics and in critical theory, should be read by all those interested in Greek tragedy and in the culture of late fifth-century Athens.
Author | : |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 1958-11 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780393002034 |
Three classic Greek tragedies are translated and critically introduced by Edith Hamilton.
Author | : Euripides |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 74 |
Release | : 1951 |
Genre | : Andromache (Legendary character) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Euripides |
Publisher | : Franklin Classics |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 2018-10-06 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780341661115 |
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