The Bacchae(Applause Books). THE BACCHAE was not only the last and greatest of Euripides' tragedies, it was very close to the last of the great Greek tragedies. The story of the play is in part about this cultural dissolution in Athens. It's also about the theatre itself, and how a sane society needs strong, intelligent theatre to survive. THE BACCHAE makes a perfect first entry in the new Applause series of classic dramas, because it argues so passionately and beautifully and convincingly for the need for such a theatre, in our era as much as in Euripides'. Herbert Golder in his new translation has turned an ancient play into a new one, one just as potent for an applicable to our troubled times as Euripides' own. |
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AGAVE Aktaion ANTISTROPHE Aphrodite arms Athens Autonoe available from APPLAUSE Bacchae Bacchant Bacchic barbarian beast blessed blood body born bring Bromios bull child CHORUS dance dancers dare daughters of Kadmos Dionysian DIONYSOS Yes divine dragon dragonish dramatic dress drums earth Echion Euripidean Euripides evohé evohé eyes father fawnskin flesh fool god's gods Greece hair hands head of Pentheus heaven hold holy human hunt illusion ivy crown Judith Malina justice Kithairon lead look lord Lydia madness Maenads mask MESSENGER mock mortal mother mountain MURRAY SCHISGAL mysteries outrage palace Paper ISBN Paul Sills PENTHEUS Yes Performance rights available Phrygia pine play rites roaring savage justice scene Semele shaking sight sisters smiling snakes Story Theater stranger STROPHE suddenly suffer sweet TEIRESIAS tell theatrical Thebes things throw thyrsos Tmolos tragedy tragic turns wand wear wild William Arrowsmith wine woman women worship Zeus