03556nam 2200637 a 450 99621813090331620240205211337.01-281-85315-197866118531500-19-156001-4(CKB)1000000000498123(EBL)737513(OCoLC)318675694(SSID)ssj0000089162(PQKBManifestationID)11127028(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000089162(PQKBWorkID)10089122(PQKB)11534654(StDuBDS)EDZ0000073784(MiAaPQ)EBC737513(MiAaPQ)EBC7037250(Au-PeEL)EBL7037250(EXLCZ)99100000000049812320080212d2008 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe reception and performance of Euripides' Herakles[electronic resource] reasoning madness /Kathleen RileyOxford Oxford University Press20081 online resource (410 p.)Oxford classical monographs"This book began life as an Oxford D.Phil. thesis"--Pref.0-19-171594-8 0-19-953448-9 Includes bibliographical references (p. [368]-387) and index.Contents; List of illustrations; 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 Nervenkunst8. 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; Appendix 1. Heraklean madness on the modern stage: a chronology; Appendix 2. The Reading school play; Bibliography; IndexEuripides' 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 inaccordance with contemporary thinking on mental illness. She concurrently explores how these attempts have, in the process, necOxford classical monographs.Heracles (Greek mythological character)In literatureHeracles (Greek mythological character)DramaMental illness in literatureHeracles (Greek mythological character)In literature.Heracles (Greek mythological character)Mental illness in literature.882/.01Riley Kathleen1974-629029MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK996218130903316The reception and performance of Euripides' Herakles2364613UNISA