Mario Telò: Queer Euripides: Re-Readings in Greek Tragedy [2022] paperback ZPARE old and young

old and young

With this play Brian Friel made his reputation and it is now an acknowledged classic of modern drama

Taxi drivers stopped their cabs to shake his hand

Booger Boy

And no turnips

Mario Telò: Queer Euripides: Re-Readings in Greek Tragedy [2022] paperback ZPARE old and youngThis volume is the first attempt to reconsider the entire corpus of an ancient canonical author through the lens of queerness broadly conceived, taking as its subject Euripides, the latest of the three great Athenian tragedians. Although Euripides' plays have long been seen as a valuable source for understanding the construction of gender and sexuality in ancient Greece, scholars of Greek tragedy have only recently begun to engage with queer theory