Women on the edge : four plays

The Resource Women on the edge : four plays

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Women on the edge : four plays

Title remainder

four plays

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by Euripides ; translated and edited by Ruby Blondell ... [et al.]

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Summary

Women on the Edge, a collection of Alcestis, Medea, Helen, and Iphegenia at Aulis, provides a broad sample of Euripides' plays focusing on women, and spans the chronology of his surviving works, from the earliest, to his last, incomplete, and posthumously produced masterpiece. Each play shows women in various roles--slave, unmarried girl, devoted wife, alienated wife, mother, daughter--providing a range of evidence about the kinds of meaning and effects the category woman conveyed in ancient Athens. The female protagonists in these plays test the boundaries--literal

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CaPaEBR

Dewey number

882/.01

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no index present

LC call number

PA3975

LC item number

.A2 1999eb

Literary form

non fiction

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The work Women on the edge : four plays represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Sydney Jones Library, University of Liverpool. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.