Pentheus and the Spectator in Euripides' Bacchae

Barrett, James

doi:10.1353/ajp.1998.0029

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“…Teiresias reacts to Pentheus' insistence on a world of ordered forms where men are men and not women, where mortals are mortal and not gods: Pentheus may have been without his senses before, but now he is completely mad (memênas, 359). The 5 Recent readings of the Bacchae have addressed questions of perception, subjectivity, theatricality, and meta-theatricality (Barrett 1998;Gregory 1985). Thumiger, focusing on the blurring of the human/animal distinction and attending to the "lack of a fixed line separating the literal and the figural," speaks to issues I highlight (2006,208).…”

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Freedom, Form, and Formlessness: Euripides’Bacchaeand Plato'sRepublic

Saxonhouse

2014

Am Polit Sci Rev

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L iberalism begins with the free individual; the liberal state comes into being in order to preserve that freedom. Part of that freedom, to use the language of John Stuart Mill, is choosing one's own life plan, escaping the forms and lifestyles imposed on us by history or nature. Two texts from ancient Athens-Euripides' Bacchae and Plato's Republic-explore the challenge posed by what I call "the escape from form." The Bacchae, while capturing our longing for a freedom from form, portrays the devastation of a city invaded by just that freedom; the Republic, while capturing the epistemological and political need for form, portrays a frightening vision of a city so bound by form that it becomes immobile. Socrates' self-critique in his reconsideration of the artisan in Republic 10, however, unites the forms his Callipolis demands with the multiplicity of human identities that the god Dionysus brings to Thebes in Euripides' tragedy.

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“… 5 Recent readings of the Bacchae have addressed questions of perception, subjectivity, theatricality, and meta-theatricality (Barrett 1998; Gregory 1985). Thumiger, focusing on the blurring of the human/animal distinction and attending to the “lack of a fixed line separating the literal and the figural,” speaks to issues I highlight (2006, 208).…”

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Freedom, Form, and Formlessness: Euripides’Bacchaeand Plato'sRepublic

Saxonhouse

2014

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The Politics of Seeing Double: Klaus Michael Grüber’s Die Bakchen and the Visual Arts

Gerogianni

2022

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Euripides’ The Bacchae is a Greek tragedy that relies on its capacity to give double vision, by confusing and dismembering the senses. This idea of doubling is taken to the extreme in the Berlin Schaubühne production Die Bakchen, directed by Klaus Michael Grüber in 1974, which formed part of the Antikenprojekt, realized along with Peter Stein. For theatre historians, Grüber’s Die Bakchen delivered a completely new concept of theatre—a theatre of images—capable to bewitch and fascinate the spectators, but distant from a hermeneutic approach with reference to the dramatic text. What is often missed here, however, is the specificity of the visual aspect of the production, which features references to historical works of classical and Renaissance art, as well as to modern sculpture, Arte Povera and conceptual, as well as performance, art pieces. In fact, the idea of doubling seems to be translated by Grüber into an intertextual, intermedial play between the text, the performance on stage, and the visual arts. As a result, the different aspects of the production look familiar and unfamiliar at the same time, not merely by the uneasy separation of theatre and text, but also by the double’s interplay between vision and knowledge.

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HOMER ON KITHAIRON: DRAMATIC AND NARRATIVE REPRESENTATION IN THE <em>BACCHAE</em>

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2013

The Classical Journal

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Pentheus and the Spectator in Euripides' Bacchae

Cited by 5 publications

References 15 publications

Freedom, Form, and Formlessness: Euripides’Bacchaeand Plato'sRepublic

Freedom, Form, and Formlessness: Euripides’Bacchaeand Plato'sRepublic

The Politics of Seeing Double: Klaus Michael Grüber’s Die Bakchen and the Visual Arts

HOMER ON KITHAIRON: DRAMATIC AND NARRATIVE REPRESENTATION IN THE <em>BACCHAE</em>

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