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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Bacchae"”.
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The Moral Characterisation of the Ἰουδαῖοι: A Comparative Study of Opponents to the Divine in the Gospel of John and Euripides' Bacchae
… of divine opponents in Euripides’ Bacchae and the Gospel of John, comparing the characterisation of Pentheus, the divine opponent in Euripides’ Bacchae, with the Ἰουδαῖοι in John, including those characters directly identified as belonging to this group (the Pharisees, Chief …
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Ancient Greek Maenads: Comparing Mythological Worshippers of Dionysos to Reality
Euripides' Bacchae is an excellent example of a mythological story with incorporated historical elements. The ancient Greek tragedy by Euripides examines the introduction of a new deity, Dionysos, to the well-established religion of the ancient Greek world. In this world, Dionysos leads and …
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Beauty of Form and Concept: The Aesthetics of Late Euripidean Tragedy
… Aulis", and "Orestes". A final chapter analyses "Bacchae", which has commonly been understood as a reaction against the avant-gardism of Euripides’ other late works. The focus throughout is on the most contested features of these plays – their lyric elements. I offer a close analysis of the texts …
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The mediation in late twentieth-century English theatres of selected ancient Greek tragedy texts and themes concerned with women and power
… three decades, as reflected by versions of the Bacchae. Chapter 3 is about the role of the actress in performing Medea. Chapter 4 discusses how playwrights have translated for theatre some ancient Greek myths concerning women and sex. Chapter 5 considers the use of Antigone in the field of drama …
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Ted Hughes and Theatre: The Emerging Dramatist 1956-1959
… and play reveal that Taurus, based on Euripides’ Bacchae, was the beginning of a throughline of Greek originals that would characterize Hughes’s work for the theatre for the whole of his career. My thesis brings previously unseen documents and incidents to light, and offers an entirely new insight …
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Parched: The Queer Alcoholic on the Modern American Stage, 1940-1970
… for example, the analysis of Euripides’s "The Bacchae" [405 BCE] in the dissertation’s epilogue), and shifting models of behaviours deemed “excessive” continue to affect their theatrical representations in a reciprocal relation.