BIBLIOGRAPHY
Allen, James T.,
A
Concordance to Euripides (U of Calif. Pr 1954)
Anthon, Charles, An English Commentary on the Rhesus, Medea, Hippolytus,
Alcestis, Heracleidae, Supplices, and Troades of
Euripides (Harper 1877)
Appleton, Reginald B., Euripides the Idealist (NY Dutton 1927)
[Searches for the secondary meaning behind the obvious in
Euripides.
A reaction to Verrall and the rationalists and realists.]
Bates, William N., Euripides: a Student of Human Nature (Dutton
1927)
[Treats Euripides as primarily an observer of man and his
predicament;
a variation of the realist view.]
Blaklock, E. M., The Male Characters of Euripides: a study in realism
(Wellington, NZ Univ. Press 1952) A modern realist
treatment.
Burian, P., ed. Directions in Euripidean Criticism (1985)
Burnett, S. P., "Virtues of Admetus," Classical Philology, LX,
Oct 1965
[A new look at the character of Admetus in the Alcestis
from the standpoint of his ethical situation.]
Cambridge Ancient History, Vol. V, (Cambridge
1935)
Collard C. Euripides (Greece and Rome Surveys in the Classics 14, 1981)
Davidson, J. A., "Euripides' Media 1181-4,"
Classical Review,
New Series, XIV, Dec 1964
Eliot, T. S., "Euripides and Professor Murray," Selected Essays,
1917-1932
(Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc.1932).
[Eliot's
view of the effect of Murray's translation and popularization of
Euripides.]
Foley, H., Ritual Irony: Poetry and Sacrifice in Euripides (1985)
Greenwood, Leonard H. G., Aspects of Euripidean Tragedy (Cambridge UP
1953)
[A study based largely on Kitto's work but going beyond
Kitto's conclusions,
suggesting that Euripides was impeded in his portrayal of
real human action
by the traditional view of the gods. Summarizes earlier
critical positions.]
Grube, Georges M. A., The Drama of Euripides (Methuen 1941)
[An energetic symbolist interpretation.]
Halleran, M. Stagecraft in Euripides (1985)
Hettick, Ernest L., A Study in Ancient Naturalism, the testimony of Euripides
(Williamsport, Pa. Bayard 1933)
Klotsche, Ernest H., "The Supernatural in Euripides as illustrated in
prayer,
curses, oaths, oracles, prophesies, dreams, and
visions,"
Lincoln, Neb., Nebraska Univ. Studies, XVIII, 1918,
No. 3-4.
Lattimore, Richmond, tr., "Fall of the City: three songs from
Euripides,"
Antioch Review, XXV, Spring, 1965 (pp. 90-2).
Lucas, Frank L., Euripides and his Influence (NY Cooper Sq. 1963)
[An important study tracing the influence of Euripides
from
contemporary times to the present. Intro by R. Lattimore.]
Manning, Clarence A., A Study of Archaism in Euripides
(NY Columbia UP
1916)
Medea, freely adapted from the Medea of Euripides by Robinson Jeffers
(Random 1946; NY, S. French, 1948.
[An interesting adaptation by an important American poet.]
Michelini, A.N., Euripides and the Tragic Tradition (1987)
Murray, Gilbert, Euripides and his Age (Oxford UP 1946)
[Some believe this is perhaps the single most important work for the
general
reader or beginning student, covering all aspects of Euripidean
study.]
Murray, Gilbert, tr., Euripides' plays in 3 vols. (Oxford, 1901-13).
Norwood, Gilbert, Essays on Euripidean Drama, (Univ. of
Calif. Pr., 1954)
Parry, H., "Second Stasimon of Euripides' Heracles" (637-700),
American
Journal of Philology, LXXXVI, October, 1965, pp. 363-74.
Phoutrides, Aristides E., "The Chorus of Euripides," HSCPh,
XXVII,
(Cambridge, 1916)
pp.77-170.
Rhys, Ernest, ed., The Plays of Euripides in English, 2 vols.
(Dutton, Everyman's Library, 1906).
Segal, C., Dionysiac Poetics and Euripides' Bacchae (1982)
Segal, E., ed., Euripides
Turyn, Aleksander, The Byzantine Ms. tradition of the tragedies of
Euripides,
(Univ. of Illinois Pr.), Ill. Studies in Language and
Literature, Vol. 43, 1957.
Velacott, P., Ironic Drama: A Study of Euripides (1975)
Euripides, Orestes, and Other Plays (Penguin Classics)
Verrall, A. W., Euripides, the Rationalist, (Cambridge UP 1895)
[The classical study of Euripides from the standpoint of the realist.]
Way, Arthus S., tr., Euripides, with an English translation, 4
vols.,
(Macmillan, Loeb1916-19). Greek and English text.
Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, Ulrich von, Analecta Euripidea, 1875.
[Hailed by Murray as the foundation of all modern criticism.]
Winnington-Ingram, R., Euripides and Dionysus: An Interpretation of the Bacchae
(1948)
Zuntz, Gunther, An Inquiry into the transmission of the plays of
Euripides,
(Cambridge UP 1965)
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