Euripides' Bacchae : the play and its audience /

Euripides' Bacchae : the play and its audience /

The purpose of this book is to investigate what it was Euripides intended to convey to the theatre-going public of his day when he wrote his most exciting and most gruesome play, the Bacchae . The meanings which are to be attached to the action of a play are woven by an audience, both during and aft...

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Main Author: Oranje, Hans.

Format: eBook

Language: English
Ancient Greek
Dutch

Published: Leiden : E.J. Brill, 1984.

Series: Mnemosyne, Supplements 78.
Mnemosyne Supplements Online, Volumes 1-203, ISBN: 9789004381049.

Subjects:

Euripides. > Bacchae.
Dionysus > (Greek deity) > In literature.
Pentheus, > King of Thebes (Mythological character) > In literature.
Dionysus > (Greek deity)
Pentheus, > King of Thebes (Mythological character)
Bacchae (Euripides)
To 1500
Bacchantes in literature.
Theater audiences > Greece > History > To 1500.
Theater > History > To 500.
Literature.
Theater.
Theater audiences.
Greece.
History.

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Call Number: PA3973.B2 O7 1984

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction: the riddle of the Bacchae
  • The interpretation of the Bacchae
  • The audience response
  • Pentheus (1)-Bacchae 1-656
  • Pentheus (2)-Bacchae 657-1392
  • Dionysus (1): the god in the life of the Athenians
  • Dionysus (2): the god on the tragic stage
  • Dionysus (3): the god's epiphanies in the Bacchae
  • Space and action in the Bacchae
  • The chorus in the action: what is wisdom?
  • Conceptual meanings
  • Bernd Seidensticker's study of the Pentheus character
  • Bacchae 651-2
  • Bacchae 748-68
  • Bacchae 135-69
  • Bibliography
  • Indexes.