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001 2008006540
003 DLC
005 20080229110630.0
008 080212s2008 nyu b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2008006540
020 $a9780199534487
040 $aDLC$cDLC
050 00 $aPA3985$b.R55 2008
082 00 $a882/.01$222
100 1 $aRiley, Kathleen,$d1974-
245 14 $aThe reception and performance of Euripides Herakles :$breasoning madness /$cKathleen Riley.
260 $aNew York :$bOxford University Press,$c2008.
263 $a0805
300 $ap. cm.
490 0 $aOxford classical monographs
500 $a"This book began life as an Oxford D.Phil. thesis"--Pref.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction : reasoning madness and redefining the hero -- No longer himself : the tragic fall of Euripides Herakles -- Let the monster be mine : Seneca and the internalization of imperial furor -- A peculiar compound : Hercules as Renaissance man -- Even the earth is not room enough : Herculean selfhood on the Elizabethan stage -- Sophist, sceptic, sentimentalist : the nineteenth century damnatio of Euripides -- The Browning version : Aristophanes apology and the perfect piece -- The psychological hero : Herakles lost self and the creation of nervenkunst -- Herakles apotheosis : the tragedy of superman -- The Herakles complex : a Senecan diagnosis of the family annihilator -- Creating a Herakles for our times : a montage of modern madness -- Appendix 1 : Heraklean madness on the modern stage : a chronology -- Appendix 2 : the reading school play.
600 00 $aEuripides.$tHeracles.
650 0 $aHeracles (Greek mythology) in literature.
650 0 $aHeracles (Greek mythology)$vDrama.
650 0 $aMental illness in literature.