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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... structural analysis by Castellani ( 1979 ) finds in Alcestis a " bipartite , " repetitious structure ; 81 the first part ( lines 1-746 ) has a tragic - pathetic quality and the second part ( lines 747-1163 ) , which " undoes the action ...
... structural analysis by Castellani ( 1979 ) finds in Alcestis a " bipartite , " repetitious structure ; 81 the first part ( lines 1-746 ) has a tragic - pathetic quality and the second part ( lines 747-1163 ) , which " undoes the action ...
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... structural analysis of the play in two parts : analysis of the dramatic technique which leads him to believe that Alcestis is a real tragedy , 100 and analysis of several dramatic motifs which culminate in the central theme of the ...
... structural analysis of the play in two parts : analysis of the dramatic technique which leads him to believe that Alcestis is a real tragedy , 100 and analysis of several dramatic motifs which culminate in the central theme of the ...
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... structural analysis cannot completely interpret the meaning of a play unless it is combined with the examination of other plays as well . 91. Helene Foley , Ritual Irony ( Ithaca and London : Cornell University Press , 1985 ) 87. Foley ...
... structural analysis cannot completely interpret the meaning of a play unless it is combined with the examination of other plays as well . 91. Helene Foley , Ritual Irony ( Ithaca and London : Cornell University Press , 1985 ) 87. Foley ...
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