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Women on the Edge

By Ruby Blondell

Women on the Edge Social Sciences

Women on the Edge

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Women on the Edge, a collection of Alcestis, Medea, Helen, and Iphegenia at Aulis, provides a broad sample of Euripides' plays focusing on women, and spans the chronology of his surviving works, from the earliest, to his last, incomplete, and posthumously produced masterpiece. Each play shows women in various roles--slave, unmarried girl, devoted wife, alienated wife, mother, daughter--providing a range of evidence about the kinds of meaning and effects the category woman conveyed in ancient Athens. The female protagonists in these plays test the boundaries--literal and conceptual--of their lives.
Although women are often represented in tragedy as powerful and free in their thoughts, speech and actions, real Athenian women were apparently expected to live unseen and silent, under control of fathers and husbands, with little political or economic power. Women in tragedy often disrupt "normal" life by their words and actions: they speak out boldly, tell lies, cause public unrest, violate custom, defy orders, even kill. Female characters in tragedy take actions, and raise issues central to the plays in which they appear, sometimes in strong opposition to male characters. The four plays in this collection offer examples of women who support the status quo and women who oppose and disrupt it; sometimes these are the same characters.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
512
Release Date:
1999-01-01
Publication Date:
1999-02-24
Publisher:
Routledge
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
041590773X
ISBN13:
9780415907736
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
885 g
Height:
157 cm
Width:
235 cm
Thickness:
32 cm
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