Bakkhai

Author: Anne Carson

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  • : 29.99 AUD
  • : 9780811227100
  • : New Directions Publishing Corporation
  • : New Directions Publishing Corporation
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  • : December 2017
  • : 211mm X 140mm X 13mm
  • : United States
  • : 32.95
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  • : Anne Carson
  • : Hardback
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Barcode 9780811227100
9780811227100

Description

Anne Carson writes, "Euripides was a playwright of the fifth century BC who reinvented Greek tragedy, setting it on a path that leads straight to reality TV. His plays broke all the rules, upended convention and outraged conservative critics. The Bakkhai is his most subversive play, telling the story of a man who cannot admit he would rather live in the skin of a woman, and a god who seems to combine all sexualities into a single ruinous demand for adoration. Dionysos is the god of intoxication. Once you fall under his influence, there is no telling where you will end up."