Tragedy's End

Tragedy's End
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 263
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ISBN-10 : 9780195344776
ISBN-13 : 0195344774
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Book Synopsis Tragedy's End by : Francis M. Dunn

Download or read book Tragedy's End written by Francis M. Dunn and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1996-07-25 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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