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... Euripidean drama , at its best , has all the fierce penetration , but it avoids , deliberately it would seem , the sudden- We first see a dim light travelling very rapidly over a long period of time and showing only the high peaks for a ...
... Euripidean drama , at its best , has all the fierce penetration , but it avoids , deliberately it would seem , the sudden- We first see a dim light travelling very rapidly over a long period of time and showing only the high peaks for a ...
Page 65
... Euripidean prologue ' as the term is commonly under- stood . It is true that five other speakers withdraw at the end of their monologue , but Iphigenia , Iocasta and Dionysus soon reappear to play an important role ; the body of ...
... Euripidean prologue ' as the term is commonly under- stood . It is true that five other speakers withdraw at the end of their monologue , but Iphigenia , Iocasta and Dionysus soon reappear to play an important role ; the body of ...
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... Euripidean convention , their beginning was far more conventional than the rest . It was often stiff , formal and frigid , 3 and became , in the later plays , another of those conventional moments already discussed . Nearly every ...
... Euripidean convention , their beginning was far more conventional than the rest . It was often stiff , formal and frigid , 3 and became , in the later plays , another of those conventional moments already discussed . Nearly every ...
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Achilles Admetus Adrastus Aegisthus Agamemnon Alcestis Amphitryo Andromache Antigone Aphrodite Apollo appears Argive Argos Artemis Athenian Athens audience Bacchants beautiful begs brother character child Children of Heracles choral ode chorus clearly Clytemnestra comes Creon Creusa curse daughter dead death Dionysus divine doubt dramatic dramatist Electra emotional Eteocles Euripidean Euripides express fact fate father fear feel gives goddess gods Greece Greek Hector Hecuba Helen Hermione hero Hippolytus human husband Iocasta Iolaus Iphigenia Jason kill king lamentation Lycus madness Medea Menelaus messenger misfortune monologue mother murder natural Neoptolemus Odysseus Oedipus Orestes palace parodos Peleus Pentheus Phaedra pity play poet Polyneices Polyxena prayer prologos Pylades reference relevance Rhesus sacrifice says scene seems sing slave song sorrow Sparta speak speech story Suppliants sympathy Taurians tells Thebes Theonoe Theseus tragedy tragic Trojan Women Troy Tyndareus vengeance Verrall whole wife woman words worship Xuthus Zeus