Bibliography

Burian, Peter, ed. "Selected Bibliography of Euripidean Criticism since World War II." In Directions in Euripidean Criticism: A Collection of Essays, pp. 227-36. Durham: Duke University Press, 1985.

Bibliography of recent Euripides scholarship, organized according to the plays discussed.

Criticism

Barlow, Shirley A. The Imagery of Euripides: A Study in the Dramatic Use of Pictorial Language. London: Methuen and Co. Ltd., 1971, 169 p.

In addition to a brief discussion of the poetic qualities of Euripides's works, Barlow covers "questions of staging and dramatic technique…, problems of psychological motivation, [and] the dramatist's intellectual ideas considered in relation to those of his contemporaries."

Buckler, William E. "The Influence of Theatrical Machinery and Dramatic Conventions." In The Greek Theater and Its Drama, pp. 284-317. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1936.

Explores the theatrical devices and scenery used by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, with an extended treatment of the deus ex machina.

Bumett, Anne Pippin. Catastrophe Survived. Euripides' Plays of Mixed Reversal. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971, 234 p.

Examines Euripides's seven "tyche plays," claiming that in each of them the tragic reversal proceeds in "two contradictory forms … [so that] the chief characteristic of these dramas is a meeting of conflicting moods."

Conacher, D. J. Euripidean Drama: Myth, Theme and Structure. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1967, 354 p.

Surveys Euripides's plays in terms of their different tragic characters—mythological, political, realistic, romantic, and satyric.

Grube, G. M. A. The Drama of Euripides. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1941, 456 p.

Discusses the contemporary relevance and specifically overviews the dramatic elements of Euripides' dramas, including the role of the gods, prologues and epilogues, and the chorus.

Huddilston, John H. The Attitude of the Greek Tragedians toward Art. London: Macmillan and Co., 1898, 119 p.

Explores the extent to which Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides were influenced by the art of their time, with a comparison of the views of Aeschylus and Euripides.

Kitto, H. D. F. Greek Tragedy: A Literary Study. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1961, 399 p.

Discusses the development of tragedy from the earliest lyrical tragedies to the Bacchae and Oedipus Colonus, focusing especially on the techniques of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides.

Lesky, Albin. "Euripides." In his Greek Tragic Poetry, translated by Matthew Dillon, pp. 197-393. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1983.

Discusses Euripides's life and the manuscript transmissions and editions of his work, extensively surveying and critically appraising his plays in chronological order.

Matthaei, Louise E. "The Ion of Euripides," "The Hippolytus of Euripides," and "The Hecuba of Euripides." In his Studies in Greek Tragedy, pp. 42-157. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1918.

Presents a scene-by-scene analysis of Euripides's Ion, Hippolytus, and Hecuba, with a discussion of their related themes.

Murray, Gilbert. "The Art of Euripides: Ideal Form and Sincere Spirit: Prologue: Messenger: Deus ex Machina" and "The Art of Euripides Continued: The Chorus: Conclusion." In his Euripides and His Age, pp. 100-25. London: Oxford University Press, 1965.

Outlines the historical genesis of several of Euripides's dramatic devices, including the prologue, the deus ex machina, and the chorus.

Norwood, Gilbert. "The Works of Euripides." In his Greek Tragedy, pp. 186-326. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1948.

Chronologically examines the plays of Euripides, including when they were first produced and how they were received by his contemporaries. Norwood contends that two themes persist throughout Euripides's works: "the worship of beauty, and loyalty to the dry light of intelligence."

Parry, Hugh. "Euripides." In The Lyric Poems of Greek Tragedy, pp. 145-214. Toronto: Samuel Stevens, 1978.

Explores Euripides' choral odes, with sections on songs of praise, mythohistorical odes, odes of the Trojan War, songs of love, and songs of innocence and experience.

Segal, Charles. "The Bacchae as Metatragedy," in Directions in Euripidean Criticism: A Collection of Essays, edited by Peter Burian, Duke University Press, 1985, pp. 1-12.

Claims that in the Bacchae Euripides "uses the figure of Dionysus as god of the tragic mask to reflect on the paradoxical nature of tragedy itself."

Vellacott, Philip. Ironic Drama: A Study of Euripides' Method and Meaning. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1975, 266 p.

Contradicts the readings of Euripides typically denying that he held a coherent world view, interpreting his plays instead through the irony expressed in their public performance.

Verrall, A. W. "Ion." In his Euripides the Rationalist: A Study in the History of Art and Religion, pp. 129-65. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1895.

Examines the Ion as a typical example of Euripides's use of "certain methods of dealing with the peculiar relation between him and his theatre of exhibition, between the sentiments which he desired to express and the form imposed by accident."

Webster, T. B. L. The Tragedies of Euripides. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1967, 316 p.

Surveys Euripides's plays in chronological order, highlighting the specifically Euripidean elements, including his use of stage machinery, his characterizations, and his style.

Wolff, Christian. "Euripides." In Ancient Writers: Greece and Rome, edited by T. James Luce, pp. 233-66. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1982.

Discusses Euripides's life and works and surveys his use of mythical and political images. Wolff also includes a short bibliography of texts, translations, commentaries, and critical studies.

Zuntz, G. An Inquiry into the Transmission of the Plays of Euripides. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1965, 295 p.

Chronicles the transmission of Euripides's plays and fragments and explores the relationship between manuscripts L and P.

Additional coverage of Euripides's life and career is contained in the following sources published by Gale Research: DISCovering Authors; DISCovering Authors: British Edition; DISCovering Authors: Canadian Edition; DISCovering Authors Dramatists Module; DISCovering Authors Most-Studied Authors Module; Drama Criticism, Vol. 4; and Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 176.