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In his play "Bacchae", Euripides chooses as his central figure the god who crosses the boundaries among god, man, and beast, between reality and imagination, and between art and madness. This book builds gradually from concrete details of cult, setting, and imagery to the work's implications for the nature of myth, language, and theater.

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"Here the fruits of intensive and sustained scholarship are combined with a sophisticated awareness of current critical theory to offer a powerful reading of one of the greatest plays of the tradition... Segal offers an exemplary instance of the fusion of traditional scholarship and current critical practice."--Cyrus Hamlin, Recherches Semiotiques/Semiotic Inquiry "Well-written and well-documented, based on extensive reading and intensive study, [the book] reveals the Bacchae as a much more beautiful, more interesting, and more important play than has thus far been realized."--W. J. Verdenius, Mnemosyne

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      Publisher: Princeton University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 16/11/1997
      ISBN13: 9780691015972, 978-0691015972
      ISBN10: 069101597X

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      In his play "Bacchae", Euripides chooses as his central figure the god who crosses the boundaries among god, man, and beast, between reality and imagination, and between art and madness. This book builds gradually from concrete details of cult, setting, and imagery to the work's implications for the nature of myth, language, and theater.

      Trade Review
      "Here the fruits of intensive and sustained scholarship are combined with a sophisticated awareness of current critical theory to offer a powerful reading of one of the greatest plays of the tradition... Segal offers an exemplary instance of the fusion of traditional scholarship and current critical practice."--Cyrus Hamlin, Recherches Semiotiques/Semiotic Inquiry "Well-written and well-documented, based on extensive reading and intensive study, [the book] reveals the Bacchae as a much more beautiful, more interesting, and more important play than has thus far been realized."--W. J. Verdenius, Mnemosyne

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