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Gender and the City in Euripides' Political Plays by Daniel Mendelsohn, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

From Daniel Mendelsohn

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Gender and the City in Euripides' Political Plays by Daniel Mendelsohn, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters
Gender and the City in Euripides' Political Plays by Daniel Mendelsohn, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

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Gender and the City in Euripides' Political Plays by Daniel Mendelsohn, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

From Daniel Mendelsohn

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This book is the first book-length study of Euripides' so-called 'political plays (Children of Herakles and Suppliant Women) to appear in half a century. Still disdained as the anomalously patriotic or propagandistic' works of a playwright elsewhere famous for his subversive, ironic artisticethos, the two works in question, notorious for their uncomfortable juxtaposition of political speeches and scenes of extreme feminine emotion, continue to be dismissed by scholars of tragedy as artistic failures unworthy of the author of Medea, Hippolytus, and Bacchae. The present study makes useof recent insights into classical Greek conceptions of gender (in real life and on stage) and Athenian notions of civic identity to demonstrate that the political plays are, in fact, intellectually subtle and structurally coherent exercises in political theorizing - works that use complexinteractions between female and male characters to explore the advantages, and costs, of being a member of the polis. | Gender and the City in Euripides' Political Plays by Daniel Mendelsohn, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

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