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What do we mean by hero? Who can apportion blame to the workings of the human mind, and who has the power to forgive? These are questions thrown up by Euripides' Heracles and tackled...
An analysis of MacLeish's Herakles and Armitage's Mister Heracles reveals that the dramatization of the ‘Herakles complex’ necessarily involves applying a Senecan or Wilamowitzian reading to Euripides' text, and especially to Euripides' innovative sequencing of events in the myth.
What do we mean by hero? Who can apportion blame to the workings of the human mind, and who has the power to forgive? These are questions thrown up by Euripides' Heracles and tackled unflinchingly by Simon Armitage in language that brings the play's contemporaneity sharply into focus, without diminishing its historical portent.
26. Mai 2015 · The long read Poetry. Simon Armitage: Making poetry pay. In a culture that has consigned poetry to the margins, Armitage has become something very rare: a genuinely popular British poet. Aida...
- Aida Edemariam
Armitage is the author of five stage plays, including Mister Heracles, a version of Euripides' The Madness of Heracles. The Last Days of Troy premiered at Shakespeare's Globe in June 2014.
Signed by Author(s) - 1st Edition - Soft cover - London, Faber and Faber, 2000. - xi+57pp. 8vo. Original wrappers. A very good copy. First edition. Signed by Author. - MISTER HERACLES. After Euripdes.
Euripides, Heracles, line 1. card: Before the palace of Heracles at Thebes. Nearby stands the altar of Zeus, on the steps of which are now seated Amphitryon, Megara and her sons by Heracles. They are seeking refuge at the altar.
