Euripides is a notoriously problematic and controversial playwright whose innovations, according to Nietzsche, brought Greek tragedy to an early death. Dunn here argues that the infamous and artificial endings in Euripides deny the viewer access to a stable or authoritative reading of the play, while innovations in plot and ending opened tragedy up to a medley of comic, parodic, and narrative impulses. Part One explores the dramatic and metadramatic uses of novel closing gestures, such as aetiology, closing prophecy, exit lines of the chorus, and deus ex machina. Part Two shows how experimentation in plot and ending reinforce one another in Hippolytus, Trojan Women, and Heracles. Part Three argues that in three late plays, Helen, Orestes, and Phoenician Women, Euripides devises radically new and untragic ways of representing and understanding human experience. Tragedy's End is the first comprehensive study of closure in classical literature, and will be of interest to a range of students and scholars.
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"Dunn's argument is persuasive."--Bryn Mawr Classical Review
"As a reference source for Euripidean closing techniques Tragedy's End is compendious and useful."--New England Classical Journal
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Francis M. Dunn is at University of California, Santa Barbara.
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Trojan Women, Phoenician Women, Bacchant Women, Suppliant Women, Children of Heracles, Outside the Frame, Oedipus the King, Trojan War, Traces of the Past, The End of Performance, The Beggar's Opera, Henry James, Wooden Horse, Ara Caeli, Women of Trachis, Land of the Blessed, Libation Bearers, Artemis Tauropolos, Sacred Colonus, Blessed Isle, Gilbert Murray, The Bald Soprano, Noyes Fludd, Prometheus Unbound Browse Sample Pages:
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choral exit, closing aetiology, demonic epiphany, epilogue speaker, double epiphany, concluding prophecy, closing gestures, unbridled speech, prologue speech, opening prophecy, divine frame, larger continuum Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Trojan Women, Phoenician Women, Bacchant Women, Suppliant Women, Children of Heracles, Outside the Frame, Oedipus the King, Trojan War, Traces of the Past, The End of Performance, The Beggar's Opera, Henry James, Wooden Horse, Ara Caeli, Women of Trachis, Land of the Blessed, Libation Bearers, Artemis Tauropolos, Sacred Colonus, Blessed Isle, Gilbert Murray, The Bald Soprano, Noyes Fludd, Prometheus Unbound Browse Sample Pages:
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- Dionysiac Poetics and Euripides' "Bacchae" by Charles Segal in Back Matter
- The Trojan Women and Other Plays (Oxford World's Classics) by Euripides in Front Matter
- The Play of Space: Spatial Transformation in Greek Tragedy by Rush Rehm in Back Matter
- Orestes and Other Plays (Oxford World's Classics) by Euripides in Front Matter
- Bacchae and Other Plays: Iphigenia among the Taurians; Bacchae; Iphigenia at Aulis; Rhesus (Oxford World's Classics) by Euripides in Front Matter
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