Alcestis - Softcover

Euripides

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1502848953 ISBN 13: 9781502848956

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014

Synopsis

Alcestis is an Athenian tragedy by the ancient Greek playwright Euripides. It was first produced at the City Dionysia festival in 438 BCE. Euripides presented it as the final part of a tetralogy of unconnected plays in the competition of tragedies, for which he won second prize; this arrangement was exceptional, as the fourth part was normally a satyr play. Its ambiguous, tragicomic tone—which may be "cheerfully romantic" or "bitterly ironic"—has earned it the label of a "problem play."] Alcestis is, possibly excepting the Rhesus, the oldest surviving work by Euripides, although at the time of its first performance he had been producing plays for 17 years. Check out our other books at www.dogstailbooks.co.uk

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Euripides, the youngest of the three great Athenian playwrights, is thought to have written about ninety-two plays, of which seventeen tragedies and one satyr-play have survived.

Language Notes

Text: English, Greek

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1502848953
• ISBN 13: 9781502848956
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 56
• Editor: Jonson Will