Euripides and Alcestis: Speculations, Simulations, and Stories of Love in the Athenian CultureUniversity Press of America, 1998 - 113 pages Euripides and Alcestis demonstrates the inherent presence of indeterminacy in Euripides' play, Alcestis. The author uses about eighty of the scholarly attempts to establish a determinate meaning of the play to exhibit the difficulty and lack of success in previous attempts at interpretation. She recognizes that the meaning of the play is surrounded by ambiguity and indeterminacy and provides an interpretation based on this knowledge. As an interpretation, the author focuses on Admetus' desire in relation to Alcestis' statue and his nature as a fifth century Athenian man while exposing Alcestis as a nonidentity. She also analyzes the issues of representation and spectatorship, showing that the theatrical performance is constructed in order to function as vehicles for the satisfaction of a dominant position-that of Admetus and the spectator of the performance. |
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... believe , according to Van Lennep , that the couple will live in happiness after the reunion . Van Lennep ... believes that the Greeks never thought of it as incompatible with tragedy . The pro- satyric elements of the play do ...
... believe , according to Van Lennep , that the couple will live in happiness after the reunion . Van Lennep ... believes that the Greeks never thought of it as incompatible with tragedy . The pro- satyric elements of the play do ...
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... believes that what Admetus learns is dramatically insignificant , not only because it happens too late but also because it is too shortlived.68 Admetus ' promise to keep a statue is " curious and wild " and can only be explained in ...
... believes that what Admetus learns is dramatically insignificant , not only because it happens too late but also because it is too shortlived.68 Admetus ' promise to keep a statue is " curious and wild " and can only be explained in ...
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... believes that Alcestis portrays the conflict between generations mainly exemplified in the Pheres scene ; 99 ... believe that Alcestis is a real tragedy , 100 and analysis of several dramatic motifs which culminate in the central theme ...
... believes that Alcestis portrays the conflict between generations mainly exemplified in the Pheres scene ; 99 ... believe that Alcestis is a real tragedy , 100 and analysis of several dramatic motifs which culminate in the central theme ...
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