Looking at Hippolytus: : David Stuttard: Bloomsbury Academic

Looking at Hippolytus

Description

Written at a time of great social upheaval, Hippolytus is one of the most studied plays in Greek drama. As befits such a work, this volume examines how Euripides responded to contemporary ideas and events, and how his audience may have reacted to his play. As well as considering the play's relationship with earlier lost tragedies and discussing its central themes, including sex and gender, this volume considers how Hippolytus may have been staged in fifth-century Athens and how it has been performed today.

This collection of twelve essays is written by prominent international academics and offers insightful analyses of the play from the perspectives of performance, history and society. Intended for readers ranging from sixth-form students and undergraduates to teachers and those interested in drama (including practitioners), this volume includes an introduction alongside an accurate yet accessible translation.

List of Contributors
Foreword

Introduction

1. Hippolytus in Fragments (Ioanna Karamanou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)
2. Staging Hippolytus (Rosie Wyles, Durham University, UK)
3. Caught in the Reins: Hippolytus and His Horses (Rush Rehm, Stanford University, USA)
4. The Character of Theseus in Hippolytus (Sophie Mills, University of North Carolina-Asheville, USA)
5. Caring for Phaedra: The Nurse as an Ethical and Political Agent (Isabel Ruffell, University of Glasgow, UK)
6. The Gods in Hippolytus (Robert Parker, University of Oxford, UK)
7. Reflections and Mirror Images in Hippolytus (Hanna M. Roisman, Colby College, USA)
8. Doing Wrong in Secret: Immoralism and Emotion in Euripides' Hippolytus (Douglas Cairns, University of Edinburgh, UK)
9. Hippocrates and Hippolytus (Elizabeth Craik, University of St Andrews, UK)
10. Euripides' Hippolytus: Reception from Antiquity to the Present Day (Tori McKee, University of Cambridge, UK)

Euripides' Hippolytus, translated by David Stuttard (Goodenough College, UK)

Bibliography
Index