The reception and performance of Euripides' Herakles [[electronic resource] ] : reasoning madness / / Kathleen Riley

• Autore: Riley Kathleen <1974->
• Pubblicazione: Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (410 p.)
• Disciplina: 882/.01
• Soggetto topico: Heracles (Greek mythological character) - In literature; Heracles (Greek mythological character); Mental illness in literature
• Note generali: "This book began life as an Oxford D.Phil. thesis"--Pref.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [368]-387) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 inaccordance with contemporary thinking on mental illness. She concurrently explores how these attempts have, in the process, nec
• Titolo autorizzato: The reception and performance of Euripides' Herakles
• ISBN: 1-281-85315-1; 9786611853150; 0-19-156001-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996218130903316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: Oxford classical monographs.