Tragedy's end: closure and innovation in Euripidean drama
Euripides is a notoriously problematic and controversial playwright whose innovations, according to Nietzsche, brought Greek tragedy to an early death. Francis Dunn here argues that the infamous and artificial endings in Euripides deny the viewer access to a stable or authoritative reading of the pl...
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| Summary: | Euripides is a notoriously problematic and controversial playwright whose innovations, according to Nietzsche, brought Greek tragedy to an early death. Francis Dunn here argues that the infamous and artificial endings in Euripides deny the viewer access to a stable or authoritative reading of the play, while innovations in plot and ending opened tragedy up to a medley of comic, parodic, and narrative impulses. Part One explores the dramatic and metadramatic uses of novel closing gestures, such as aetiology, closing prophecy, exit lines of the chorus, and deus ex machina. Part Two shows how experimentation in plot and ending reinforce one another in Hippolytus, Trojan Women, and Heracles. Part Three argues that in three late plays, Helen, Orestes, and Phoenician Women, Euripides devises radically new and untragic ways of representing and understanding human experience Tragedy's End is the first comprehensive study of closure in classical tragedy, and will be of interest to students and scholars of classical literature, drama, and comparative literature |
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Closure and Innovation
in Euripidean Drama
FRANCIS M DUNN
New York Oxford
Oxford University Press
Contents
1 Introduction 3
I Closing Gestures
2 Curtain: The End of Performance 13
3 Machine: Authorizing an End 26
4 Vestige: Traces of the Past 45
5 Postscript: Outside the Frame 64
II The End Refigured
6 Repetition: Hippolytus 87
7 Reversal: Trojan Women 101
8 Erasure: Heracles 115
III The Ends of Tragedy
9 Helen and Romance 133
10 Orestes and Tragicomedy 158
11 Phoenician Women and Narrative 180
Notes 203
Works Cited 233
Index of Euripidean Passages 245
General Index 249
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