The reception and performance of Euripides' Herakles : reasoning madness
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The reception and performance of Euripides' Herakles : reasoning madness
(Oxford classical monographs)
Oxford University Press, 2008
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  奈良
  和歌山
  鳥取
  島根
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注記
"This book began life as an Oxford D.Phil. thesis"--Pref
Includes bibliographical references (p. [368]-387) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Euripides' Herakles, which tells the story of the hero's sudden descent into filicidal madness, is one of the least familiar and least performed plays in the Greek tragic canon. Kathleen Riley explores its reception and performance history from the fifth century BC to AD 2006. Her focus is upon changing ideas of Heraklean madness, its causes, its consequences, and its therapy. Writers subsequent to Euripides have tried to 'reason' or make sense of the
madness, often in accordance with contemporary thinking on mental illness. She concurrently explores how these attempts have, in the process, necessarily entailed redefining Herakles' heroism.
Riley demonstrates that, in spite of its relatively infrequent staging, the Herakles has always surfaced in historically charged circumstances - Nero's Rome, Shakespeare's England, Freud's Vienna, Cold-War and post-9/11 America - and has had an undeniable impact on the history of ideas. As an analysis of heroism in crisis, a tragedy about the greatest of heroes facing an abyss of despair but ultimately finding redemption through human love and friendship, the play resonates powerfully
with individuals and communities at historical and ethical crossroads.
目次
- Introduction: reasoning madness and redefining the hero
- 1. 'No longer himself': the tragic fall of Euripides' Herakles
- 2. 'Let the monster be mine': Seneca and the internalization of imperial furor
- 3. A peculiar compound: Hercules as Renaissance man
- 4. 'Even the earth is not room enough': Herculean selfhood on the Elizabethan stage
- 5. Sophist, sceptic, sentimentalist: the nineteenth-century damnatio of Euripides
- 6. The Browning version: Aristophanes' Apology and 'the perfect piece'
- 7. The psychological hero: Herakles' lost self and the creation of Nervenkunst
- 8. Herakles' apotheosis: the tragedy of Superman
- 9. The Herakles complex: a Senecan diagnosis of the 'Family Annihilator'
- 10. Creating a Herakles for our times: a montage of modern madness
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