Tragedy's end : closure and innovation in Euripidean drama /
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Author / Creator: | Dunn, Francis M. |
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Imprint: | New York : Oxford University Press, 1996. |
Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 252 pages) |
Language: | English |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11154526 |
ISBN: | 019508344X 9780195083446 1602566240 9781602566248 9780195344776 0195344774 1423734769 9781423734765 |
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Digital file characteristics: | data file |
Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-244)) and indexes. Restrictions unspecified Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve Print version record. |
Summary: | Euripides is a notoriously problematic and controversial playwright whose innovations, according to Nietzsche, brought Greek tragedy to an early death. Dunn here argues that the infamous and artificial endings in Euripides deny the viewer access to a stable or authoritative reading of the play, while innovations in plot and ending opened tragedy up to a medley of comic, parodic, and narrative impulses. Part One explores the dramatic and metadramatic uses of novel closing gestures, such as aetiology, closing prophecy, exit lines of the chorus, and deus ex machina. Part Two shows how experimenta. |
Other form: | Print version: Dunn, Francis M. Tragedy's end. New York : Oxford University Press, 1996 |
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