Euripides

Euripides is identified with theatrical innovations that have profoundly influenced drama down to modern times, especially in the representation of traditional, mythical heroes as ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances. This new approach led him to pioneer developments that later writers adapted to comedy, some of which are characteristic of romance. He also became "the most tragic of poets", focusing on the inner lives and motives of his characters in a way previously unknown. He was "the creator of ... that cage which is the theatre of Shakespeare's ''Othello'', Racine's ''Phèdre'', of Ibsen and Strindberg," in which "imprisoned men and women destroy each other by the intensity of their loves and hates". But he was also the literary ancestor of comic dramatists as diverse as Menander and George Bernard Shaw.
His contemporaries associated him with Socrates as a leader of a decadent intellectualism. Both were frequently lampooned by comic poets such as Aristophanes. Socrates was eventually put on trial and executed as a corrupting influence. Ancient biographies hold that Euripides chose a voluntary exile in old age, dying in Macedonia, but recent scholarship casts doubt on these sources. Provided by Wikipedia
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by Euripides.
Published 1963
Published 1963
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by Euripides.
Published 1878
Published 1878
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by Euripides.
Published 2001
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by Euripides
Published 1990
Published 1990
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by Euripides.
Published 1916
Published 1916
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by Euripides.
Published 1949
Published 1949
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by Euripides.
Published 2005
Published 2005
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by Euripides.
Published 1963
Published 1963
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by Euripides.
Published 1963
Published 1963
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by Euripides.
Published 1893
Published 1893
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by Euripides
Published 1913
Published 1913
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by Euripides.
Published 1963
Published 1963
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by Euripides.
Published 1967
Published 1967
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by Euripides
Published 1919
Published 1919
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by Euripides.
Published 1999
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by Euripides
Published 1999
Published 1999
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by Euripides.
Published 1846
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by Euripides.
Published 1916
Published 1916
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by Euripides.
Published 1958
Published 1958
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by Euripides.
Published 1809
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