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Tragedy, Euripides, Melodrama: Hamartia, Medea, Liminality
- Author(s):
- Brian Gregory Caraher (see profile)
- Date:
- 2013
- Group(s):
- CLCS Classical and Modern, CLCS European Regions, GS Poetry and Poetics
- Subject(s):
- Drama--Technique, Greek drama (Tragedy), Euripides, Trojan War, Politics and government
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- liminality, melodrama, Tragedy, social polity, preternatural, Dramaturgy, Greek tragedy, Euripides and the Trojan War, Politics
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/dbv8-f543
- Abstract:
- This article examines socio-historical dimensions and cultural and dramaturgic implications of the Greek playwright Euripides' treatment of the myth of Medea. Euripides gives voice to victims of adventurism, aggression and betrayal in the name of 'reason' and the 'state' or 'polity.' Medea constitutes one of the most powerful mythic forces to which he gave such voice by melodramatizing the disturbing liminality of Greek tragedy's perceived social and cultural order. The social polity is confronted by an apocalyptic shock to its order and its available modes of emotional, rational and social interpretation. Euripidean melodramas of horror dramatize the violation of rational categories and precipitate an abject liminality of the tragic vision of rational order. The dramaturgy of Euripides' "Medea" is contrasted with the norms of Greek tragedy and examined in comparison with other adaptations -- both ancient and contemporary -- of the myth of Medea, in order to unfold the play's transgression of a tragic vision of the social polity.
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- Published as:
- Journal article
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 2 years ago
- License:
- All Rights Reserved
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