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Adventures with Iphigenia in Tauris

A Cultural History of Euripides’ Black Sea Tragedy
Cover of 'Adventures with Iphigenia in Tauris'. The title is written in black cover a sepia photo of Lillah McCarthy as Iphigenia in Granville-Barker’s US touring production (1915).
Edith Hall
2013
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    With Adventures with Iphigenia in Tauris, Edith Hall provides a much-needed cultural history of this play, giving as much weight to the impact of the play on subsequent Greek and Roman art and literature as on its manifestations since the discovery of the sole surviving medieval manuscript in the 1500s. Hall illustrates how reactions to the play have evolved from the ancient admiration of Aristotle and Ovid, the Christian responses of Milton and Catherine the Great, the anthropological ritualists and theatrical Modernists including James Frazer and Isadora Duncan, to recent feminist and postcolonial dramatists from Mexico to Australia. Richly illustrated and accessibly written, with all texts translated into English, Adventures with Iphigenia in Tauris argues elegantly for a reappraisal of this Euripidean masterpiece. 

    Publisher
    Oxford University Press
    1. Preface: The Play, its Myth, and the Date of its First Production
    2. Rediscovering Tauris
    3. Iphigenia, Quest Heroine
    4. Travel Tragedy
    5. Plots and Pots
    6. Orestes, Pylades, and Roman Men
    7. Imperial Escapades
    8. Escorts of Artemis
    9. Iphigenia's Christian Conversion
    10. Gluck's Iphigénie in Pain
    11. Goethe's Iphigenie between Germany and the World
    12. Rites of Modernism
    13. Women's Adventures with Iphigenia
    14. Decolonising Thoas