{"product_id":"looking-at-hippolytus-9781350429024","title":"Looking at Hippolytus","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWritten at a time of great social upheaval, \u003ci\u003eHippolytus\u003c\/i\u003e is one of the most studied plays in Greek drama.\u003c\/b\u003e This volume examines how Euripides responded to contemporary ideas and events, and how his audience may have reacted to his play. As well as considering the play's relationship with earlier lost tragedies and discussing many of its characters and central themes including its relationship with religion and evolving medical theories, this volume considers how \u003ci\u003eHippolytus\u003c\/i\u003e may have been staged in fifth-century Athens and its reception from antiquity until today. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This collection of ten essays is written by prominent international academics and offers insightful analyses of the play from the perspectives of performance, history and society. Intended for readers ranging from sixth-form students and undergraduates to teachers and those interested in drama (including practitioners), it includes an introduction alongside an accurate yet accessible translation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Stuttard\u003c\/b\u003e is a Lecturer and Fellow of Goodenough College, UK. He has directed his own translations of Greek drama throughout the UK and in Graeco-Roman theatres. He is editor of eight 'Looking at' volumes for Bloomsbury: \u003ci\u003eGreek Drama \u003c\/i\u003e(2024)\u003ci\u003e, Persians \u003c\/i\u003e(2023), \u003ci\u003e Agamemnon \u003c\/i\u003e(2021), \u003ci\u003e Ajax \u003c\/i\u003e(2019), \u003ci\u003e Antigone \u003c\/i\u003e(2017), \u003ci\u003e Bacchae \u003c\/i\u003e(2016), \u003ci\u003e Medea \u003c\/i\u003e(2014) and \u003ci\u003eLysistrata \u003c\/i\u003e(2010).\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51985483923730,"sku":"9781350429024","price":126.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d2ee988c-c0a7-489c-a723-a0cdc401476a.jpg?v=1769537304","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/looking-at-hippolytus-9781350429024","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}