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Approaches to Teaching the Dramas of Euripides
Editor(s): Robin Mitchell-Boyask
Pages: xiii & 235 pp.
Published: 2002
ISBN: 9780873527705 (paperback)
ISBN: 9780873527699 (hardcover)
"I am very impressed with what Mitchell-Boyask has managed to put together in this volume.... I give it my wholehearted recommendation."
John Peradotto, author of Man in the Middle Voice: Name and Narration in the Odyssey, and coeditor of Women in the Ancient World
Known for their fully drawn characters, artistic complexity, and a multifaceted engagement with social issues, the plays of Euripides inspire divergent critical views. While some scholars find that the dramatist writes from a traditional Greek perspective, others see a radically innovative artist who criticizes Athenian politics, the treatment of women, and the Olympian gods. Readers will find both views in this collection of essays designed to help teachers present Euripides and his plays to today's students.
Table of Contents
Approaches to Teaching the Dramas of Euripides
Part 1: MATERIALS
Robin Mitchell-Boyask
- The Classroom
- Survey Results: The Most Popular Plays
- Texts: Greek, Bilingual, and English Translation
- Required and Recommended Student Readings
- Aids to Teaching: Audiovisual and Computer-Based Resources
- The Instructor's Library
- Bibliographies
- Journals
- Reference Works and Background Studies
- Scholarship on Greek Drama and Euripides
Part 2: APPROACHES
Introduction
- Practical and Theoretical Considerations: An Overview
- Euripides in Translation
- Modern Views of Euripides
- Performances
- Moving Icons: Teaching Euripides in Film
- Performing Euripides
- Euripidean Stagecraft
- Specific Classroom Approaches
- Outlining Your Own Greek Drama: A Creative Project
- The Importance of Debate in Euripides--and of Debating Euripides
- Teaching Euripides, Teaching Mythology: Ideology and the Hero
- Specific Plays and Issues
- The Poetics in Euripides's Green Room?
- At Home and Not at Home: Euripides as a Comic Character
- Myth and Allusion in Sophocles's Women of Trachis and Euripides's Herakles
- The Art of the Deal: Teaching Folktale Types and Motifs in Euripides's Alcestis
- Women and the Medea
- Hecuba and the Political Dimension of Greek Tragedy
- On Reading Euripides's Hippolytos
Ian Storey, Martin Boyne, and Arlene Allan
- Teaching Euripides's Bacchae
Works Cited
Index
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