The Reception and Performance of Euripides' Herakles: Reasoning Madness

by Kathleen Riley

Euripides' Herakles, which tells the story of the hero's sudden descent into filicidal madness, is one of the least familiar and least performed plays in the Greek tragic canon. Kathleen Riley explores its reception and performance history from the fifth century BC to AD 2006. Her focus is upon changing ideas of Heraklean madness, its causes, its consequences, and its therapy. Writers subsequent to Euripides have tried to 'reason' or make sense of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199534489
• ISBN13: 9780199534487
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 410 Pages
• Weight: 1.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.5" x 8.5"