| Title | : | Bakkhai |
|---|---|---|
| Author | : | Anne Carson & Euripides |
| Release | : | 2017-12-15 |
| Kind | : | ebook |
| Genre | : | Theater, Books, Arts & Entertainment, Fiction & Literature, Poetry |
| Size | : | 1398227 |
| A stunning, new translation by the poet and classicist Anne Carson, first performed in 2015 at the Almeida Theatre in London Anne Carson writes, “Euripides was a playwright of the fifth century BC who reinvented Greek tragedy, setting it on a path that leads straight to reality TV. His plays broke all the rules, upended convention and outraged conservative critics. The Bakkhai is his most subversive play, telling the story of a man who cannot admit he would rather live in the skin of a woman, and a god who seems to combine all sexualities into a single ruinous demand for adoration. Dionysos is the god of intoxication. Once you fall under his influence, there is no telling where you will end up.” |
