Euripides and Quotation Culture

"Presenting a new approach to Euripides' plays, this book explores the playwright's ancient tragedies in relation to quotation culture. Treating extant works and lost works side-by-side, Matthew Wright presents a selective survey of ways in which Euripidean tragedy was quoted within antiquity, both in social contexts (on the comic stage, at symposia, in law courts, in education) and in different literary genres (drama, biography, oratory, philosophy, literary scholarship, history and anthologies). There is also a discussion of the connection between quotability and classic status, where Wright asks what quotations can tell us about ancient reading habits. The implication is that Euripides actively participated in quotation culture by deliberately making certain portions of his plays stand out as especially quotable"--

Sommario

Preface

Chapter 1: 'Awfully Full of Quotations'
Chapter 2: Quotation Markers and Framing Devices
Chapter 3: How to Quote from Books You Haven't Read
Chapter 4: Quotations in the Theatre
Chapter 5: Quotations in the Classroom
Chapter 6: Quotation as Performance
Chapter 7: Quotations and Life

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Info autore

Matthew Wright is Professor of Greek at the University of Exeter, UK. He has published widely on Greek tragedy and comedy, including The Lost Plays of Greek Tragedy (Volume 2): Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides (Bloomsbury, 2018), The Lost Plays of Greek Tragedy (Volume 1): Neglected Authors (Bloomsbury, 2016) and The Comedian as Critic (Bloomsbury, 2012).

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Matthew Wright, Matthew Wright
• Con la collaborazione di: David Taylor (Editore), David Taylor (Editore)
• Editore: Bloomsbury Academic
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 19.02.2026
• EAN: 9781350441217
• ISBN: 978-1-350-44121-7
• Pagine: 224
• Serie: Classical Literature and Society
• Categorie: Narrativa > Poesia lirica, drammatica; European History, Ancient Greece, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, DRAMA / Ancient & Classical, HISTORY / Ancient / Greece, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Ancient History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Plays, Playscripts, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Classical style, Classic and pre-20th century plays