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A review by casparb
Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides by Euripides
4.0
Exquisite!4.5. Lots of love for this - Carson takes plays that are quite possibly fairly tepid and extracts an extraordinary dynamism and an excruciating yet ætherial reverberation that somehow manages to read, beautifully.
All four plays are magnificently adapted though I play favourites for Hippolytos and Alkestis. The language of Hippolytos in particular delights me -
//I long for the secret sunwalked places,
and a god to take me up high...
-and predictably I love the way the sea comes about here and the mute heroico-tragical quality of Poseidon:
Then swelling and spattering foam and sea on every side
it went towards shore where the chariot was.
At the height of the surge
it put forth a bull - wild weird thing!
And the whole place was filled with voice-
Shivers in the voice. Wonderful and intriguingly familiar. It was nice to dip into Foucault's History of Sexuality (2) for that play as well. Fruitful! Dissemination! Polyvalence!
So Anne here has done me well thank you Anne thank you Kate (especially the annotations!!). I'm keen for AC's Antigone and beyond.
All four plays are magnificently adapted though I play favourites for Hippolytos and Alkestis. The language of Hippolytos in particular delights me -
//I long for the secret sunwalked places,
and a god to take me up high...
-and predictably I love the way the sea comes about here and the mute heroico-tragical quality of Poseidon:
Then swelling and spattering foam and sea on every side
it went towards shore where the chariot was.
At the height of the surge
it put forth a bull - wild weird thing!
And the whole place was filled with voice-
Shivers in the voice. Wonderful and intriguingly familiar. It was nice to dip into Foucault's History of Sexuality (2) for that play as well. Fruitful! Dissemination! Polyvalence!
So Anne here has done me well thank you Anne thank you Kate (especially the annotations!!). I'm keen for AC's Antigone and beyond.