EXISTENTIALISM AND EURIPIDES; Sickness, Tragedy and Divinity in the Medea, the Hippolytus and 'the Bacchae'

Minor edgewear to wraps. Some rubbing to wraps. Minor color loss and some scratches to front wrap. Some notes in pencil to rear endpaper.; Applies 'the principles of existential psychoanalysis to the neurotic characters in the Medea, the Hippolytus, and the Bacchae'. An examination of what are probably Euripides’ three best known plays in the light of theories developed in existential psychoanalysis. This is a profoundly humane study that brings out Euripides’ insight into the psychology of human beings and into the gods and demons with which they people their world.; Ramus monographs; 142 pages.