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 1964
Published 1964
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Published 1978
Published 1978
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by Euripides
Published 1913
Published 1913
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Published 1973
Published 1973
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Published 1997
Published 1997
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by Euripides.
Published 1906
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Published 1978
Published 1978
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Published 1959
Published 1959
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Published 1893
Published 1893
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Published 1923
Published 1923
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Published 1912
Published 1912
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by Euripides
Published 1974
Published 1974
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Published 2000
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Published 1999
Published 1999
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Published 2008
Published 2008
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by Euripides
Published 2003
Published 2003
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Published 1968
Published 1968
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