Mario Telò: Queer Euripides: Re-Readings in Greek Tragedy [2022] paperback ZPARE Sainte Anne and Sainte Croix

Sainte Anne and Sainte Croix

Taxi drivers stopped their cabs to shake his hand

'Will come to be seen as one of the crucial women's biographies because of its vivid dramatization of the process by which women have been written out of history and have been forced to deny their own experiences' Sean French

With this play Brian Friel made his reputation and it is now an acknowledged classic of modern drama

This Penguin Classics edition is translated from the Latin with an introduction by Robin Campbell

Mario Telò: Queer Euripides: Re-Readings in Greek Tragedy [2022] paperback ZPARE Sainte Anne and Sainte CroixThis volume is the first attempt to reconsider the entire corpus of an ancient canonical author through the lens of queerness broadly conceived, taking as its subject Euripides, the latest of the three great Athenian tragedians. Although Euripides' plays have long been seen as a valuable source for understanding the construction of gender and sexuality in ancient Greece, scholars of Greek tragedy have only recently begun to engage with queer theory