Kathleen Riley

The Reception and Performance of Euripides' Herakles

Reasoning Madness

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Produktbeschreibung

A study of the reception of Euripides' tragedy The Madness of Herakles from late antiquity to the present day. Kathleen Riley examines changing ideas of Heraklean madness and, consequently, of the Heraklean hero.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 410
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 671g
• ISBN-13: 9780199534487
• ISBN-10: 0199534489
• Artikelnr.: 23816905

Autorenporträt

Kathleen Riley is British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, Corpus Christi College, Oxford.

Inhaltsangabe

* 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