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	Bacchae
		Euripides’ use of Choruses to narrate the action in his plays was often the source of the earliest form of theatrical criticism, but here, although perhaps not absolutely essential to the structure, the device was indispensable to the impact and power of the play as a whole.
		The Bacchae is a spectacular achievement for the Celebration, with starkly angular and incredibly inventive staging by Matthews and a graffiti-overrun environmental design by Kurt Boetcher that continues through the theatre’s playing space and spills into the audience.
		The concept of bringing The Bacchae into our contemporary times is a worthy one, especially the adaptor’s idea that there are "strong parallels" to the gay community’s "reluctance to examine what it is to be gay outside of a sexual context," as Rochel addresses in his program notes.
	www.reviewplays.com /bacchae.htm (594 words)

	GradeSaver: ClassicNote: About The Bacchae
		The Bacchae was presented posthumously along with Iphigenia in Aulis and the lost Alcmaeon in Corinth in 406-405 BCE.
		In the case of The Bacchae, the Chorus is constituted by the Bacchae, devout female worshippers of Dionysus that the god has brought with him from Asia.
		Euripides' choruses are sometimes superfluous to the action, and for this he was often criticized; in the case of this play, the Chorus provides atmosphere and contributes greatly to the play's impact, but they are perhaps less than essential to the structure and plot of the play.
	www.gradesaver.com /classicnotes/titles/bacchae/about.html (698 words)

	Powell's Books - The Bacchae and Other Plays (Penguin Classics) by Euripides and Vellacott
		The Bacchae, his last surviving tragedy and masterpiece, explores the psychology of mass violence.
		As Philip Vellacott states in his introduction, through reading these dramas we enter a world 'whose mysteries are infinite because they are the simple ones of common human experience'.
		These four plays: "Ion", "The Women of Troy", "Helen" and "The Bacchae" demonstrate Euripides' aim to understand the nature of the human soul and human society.
	www.powells.com /biblio?isbn=0140440445 (268 words)

	Euripides The Bacchae (e-text)
		The content of the missing lines is fairly well known, so this translation has attempted to provide a reconstructed text for the missing portion (lines 1645 to 1699 of the English text).
		CHORUS OF BACCHAE: worshippers of Dionysus who have followed him from Asia, also called Maenads or Bacchants.
		The following names are frequently mentioned but are not speaking characters in the play.
	www.mala.bc.ca /~johnstoi/euripides/euripides.htm (3114 words)

	Tony Curran Online
		Also (yes, there is a LOT of news and pics on the board about this!), this article from "The Scotsman.com" with pic:
		Pentheus wants to stop the women - these wives, these lovers and mothers who have left their homes to revel with the god of dance and wine.
		He disguises himself as a woman and tries to repress their desires at any cost...The Bacchae tells of curiosity and control, invasion and rage."
	www.tonycurranonline.com (654 words)

	Euripides' Bacchae
		The setting of the Bacchae, as in the case of most Greek tragedies, does not require a change of scene.
		Sophocles, made a virtue of the necessity of this convention of the ancient theater by writing elaborate Messenger speeches which provide a vivid word picture of the offstage action.
		One of his animal manifestations is that of a bull (619;920) and Bromios 'roaring', a cult title used frequently in the Bacchae, may refer to his association with the bull and also the lion, although some connect this title with his lightning-struck mother.
	www.ablemedia.com /ctcweb/netshots/bacchae.htm (2216 words)

	Euripides' Bacchae
		The setting of the Bacchae, as in the case of most Greek tragedies, does not require a change of scene.
		Sophocles, made a virtue of the necessity of this convention of the ancient theater by writing elaborate Messenger speeches which provide a vivid word picture of the offstage action.
		One of his animal manifestations is that of a bull (619;920) and Bromios 'roaring', a cult title used frequently in the Bacchae, may refer to his association with the bull and also the lion, although some connect this title with his lightning-struck mother.
	ablemedia.com /ctcweb/netshots/bacchae.htm (2216 words)

	The Bacchae (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Bacchae is a tragedy by the ancient Greek playwright Euripides.
		In The Bacchae, Theban Maenads murder King Pentheus after he bans the worship of Bacchus because the Maenads deny Pentheus' divinity.
		Bacchae was another name for the Maenads, female followers of Bacchus.
	www.abacci.com /wikipedia/topic.aspx?cur_title=The_Bacchae (142 words)

	Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Bassarids (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Maenads (also Bacchae and Bacchantes) were female worshippers of Bacchus, the Greek god of mystery, wine and intoxication.
		They were usually pictured as crowned with vine leaves, clothed in fawnskins and carrying the thyrsus, and dancing with the wild abandonment of complete union with primeval nature.
		In Euripides' play, "The Bacchae", Theban Maenads murdered King Pentheus after he banned the worship of Bacchus because the Maenads denied Pentheus' divinity.
	www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/ba/Bassarids (203 words)

	The Bacchae
		HE Bacchae, which was not exhibited till after the death of Euripides, must have been the work of his latest years; and certain local allusions favour the supposition that it was written in Macedonia at the court of Archelaus.
		The moral of the play is to demonstrate the power of the gods, and the futility of resistance to the universal convictions of mankind.
		Occasional strokes of satire, directed against the grosser features of the legends, had been more than outweighed by the general tendency of his plays, which was not unfavourable to the established creed.
	www.theatrehistory.com /ancient/euripides011.html (788 words)

	Euripides' Bacchae
		The Maenad on the vase has the requisite flowing locks and ivy crown; she also sports two snakes, although these are part of her wreath rather than fasteners for her dress.
		Her feet are bare (compare Bacchae 665) and she is dancing, playing the Phrygian drum called the tympanon (mentioned by Dionysus at lines 59-60).
		The Bacchae of Euripides is a major source for the ancient Greek conception of Dionysus, but not the only source.
	academic.reed.edu /humanities/110Tech/Bacchants.html (1503 words)

	City Garage - The Bacchae (Site not responding. Last check: )
		And the fact that Agave's bloody deed is murder even though she does not recognize the victim as her own son is simply confusing, especially considering her subsequent protestations that she has killed a wild animal instead of a person.
		Mee's Bacchae is almost Dadaist theater, as he assembles a rough outline of the story, using fragments of Euripides and roughly 12 other texts.
		From her dolorous choreography of the Bacchae (whose other members include Juni Buchér, Irene Casarez, Katherine Dollison, Mariko Oka and Julie Weidmann) to the precision of her cast’s deliveries, Michel exercises a laudable restraint with Mee’s script.
	www.citygarage.org /Mee2.html (2403 words)

	The Bacchae of Baghdad - dublin - theatre in dublin (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Bacchae of Baghdad is a new piece of theatre that interprets Euripides original The Bacchae often described as one of the greatest plays ever written. Associate artist of the Abbey Theatre, Conall Morrison who is also a talented writer/director has created a powerful piece of theatre very relevant to the current political climate.
		The Bacchae of Baghdad is set in the modern-day Green Zone of Baghdad. It's a provocative exploration of the deadly force of political and religious fundamentalism.
		Bacchae is the name for the eastern god's Dionysus horde of female groupies.
	www.dublinks.com /index.cfm/loc/14/pt/0/spid/648DA8CC-F371-B30B-3D9CA7FDD38C7707.htm (219 words)

	Euripides, Bacchae
		At the beginning of the third episode (576 ff.), Dionysus's words indicate the occurrence of various physical manifestations of his power: earthquake and partial collapse of the palace, lightning and a burst of flame from Semele's grave.
		In the Bacchae there are references to the story of Semele's death by Zeus's lightning, his rescue of the baby Dionysus from his mother's womb, and the sewing of the baby into his own thigh in place of a womb to conceal Dionysus from Hera (88-99;242-246).
		The culmination of this rite was an ecstatic frenzy in which the dancers tore apart and devoured raw an animal such as a goat or a fawn (136-137).
	depthome.brooklyn.cuny.edu /classics/dunkle/studyguide/bacchae.htm (2241 words)

	Girls Just Wanna Have Fun vs. Euripides' The Bacchae
		The Bacchae, or women followers of the god Dionysus (Greek), or Bacchus (Roman), were also referred to as Maenads (mad women), Bacchants or Thyiades (Inspired).
		They either had a snake wound around their head or their bodies in honor of when Zeus brought forth the new formed god, Dionysus, who was wreathed with the coils of serpents; or, they wore a wreath of ivy or flowering smilax, a type of oak.
		From a tree top he observes the Bacchae, however, they see him and rip the tree from the ground with their bare hands.
	whoosh.org /issue14/nayko2.html (2065 words)

	Bacchae And The Successful Mixing Of Traditional And Contemporary Vampires (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In an uneven yet interesting fusion of vampires and Bacchae, the creators wove the myths of Orpheus, Bacchus, and the undead into a climax where Gabrielle was successfully seduced by the darkside and Xena had to succumb in order to save the world and her beloved.
		The Bacchae in classical Greek mythology were the women followers of the God of the Vine, Bacchus.
		Many of the Bacchae were so uncontrollable and uninhibited under the surface that even speech was difficult for most Bacchae and impossible for the initiates.
	whoosh.org /issue6/beckwith.html (1200 words)

	The Bacchae
		“The Bacchae” was first performed at the Theater of Dionysus, named for the god of wine, creativity and irrationality.
		And what a role he plays as he causes a mother, Agave, and her crazed companions (the Bacchae) to dismember her son, Pentheus, because they doubt his divinity.
		Though “The Bacchae” is hardly holiday fare, the opportunity to witness a well-conceived production of this masterpiece is too rare to pass up, whatever the season.
	www.sixthatpenn.com /the_bacchae.htm (1914 words)

	Euripides' "The Bacchae"
		In Euripides' Bacchae we see the struggle between Pentheus the disbeliever and the god Dionysus, whose Maenads imitate and celebrate the animal.
		In all cases, this change occurs to the advantage of the Bacchae and their god.
		The importance of the animal imagery in !he Bacchae is evident in that the whole idea of Bacchic worship is to celebrate the natural - the instinctive and untamed.
	www.visopsys.org /andy/essays/bacchae96.html (1137 words)

	Can Dionysus be Considered Evil in the Bacchae -- Essay at LiteratureClassics.com
		Yet from a human point of view, it can be argued that his treatment of Pentheus in the Bacchae transcends the usual case of divine retribution and enters the realm of childlike vengeance.
		Even in the Bacchae itself there is reference to Actaeon, whose fate it was to “be torn apart by packs of ravenous hounds which he himself had raised” because he had insulted Artemis by claiming that he was a better hunter.
		This is powerful in the fact that the audience are in anticipation of Pentheus’ death throughout the entire play but, unlike the majority of tragedies, they are aware that there is no element of chance — it the force of the god’s wrath alone which evokes the sense of pathos from the audience.
	www.literatureclassics.com /essays/692 (1608 words)

	Grecian Yearn
		Bacchae is a masterpiece, one of perhaps ten plays that set all ground rules for what comes later.
		If Sophocles’ Oedipus is the first whodunit, then Bacchae (from 405 B.C.) might be the first psychological thriller.
		There is little sense throughout this Bacchae of the women’s unbridled violence.
	www.citypaper.net /articles/042000/ae.theater.bacchae.shtml (492 words)

	Aisle Say (Boston): The Bacchae
		I can’t account for this approval, except to postulate that everyone was relieved that this “Bacchae” was a comparatively straightforward reading, with no assaults on the audience, few wild anachronisms to challenge the understanding, and no political pitfalls.
		But with the "Bacchae", we were back to the standard staging, a staging notoriously unworkable and frequently parodied.
		Other times, as when green plastic garbage bags, enough of them to hold the refuse of a small village, were heaped on a table and pointed to as holding the carefully-gathered fragments of Pentheus’ dismembered body, the mind simply boggled at the anachronism, noted the dissonance, and, rejecting the eyes' evidence, responded to the words.
	www.stagepage.info /reviews/Baccae.html (1601 words)

	The Bacchae Summary & Essays - Euripides
		Ever since, The Bacchae has occupied a special place among Greek dramas and particularly among the eighteen surviving plays of Euripides.
		The simple plot of The Bacchae mixes history with myth to recount the story of the god Dionysus’s tumultuous arrival in Greece.
		As a relatively new god to the pantheon of Olympian deities, Dionysus, who represented the liberating spirit of wine and revelry and became the patron god of the theatre, was not immediately welcomed into the cities, homes, and temples of the Greeks.
	www.enotes.com /bacchae (495 words)

	Euripides' The Bacchae: Animal Imagery and the Metaphor of the Hunt
		Euripides' The Bacchae: Animal Imagery and the Metaphor of the Hunt
		One important point however is the pair of role reversals which occur: the metaphorical hunter becomes the prey in at least two separate instances.
		The importance of the animal imagery in the Bacchae is evident in that the whole idea of Bacchic worship is to celebrate the natural – the instinctive and untamed.
	www.visopsys.org /andy/essays/bacchae.html (1362 words)

	Amazon.com: The Bacchae and Other Plays (Penguin Classics): Books: Euripides,Philip Vellacott (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Euripedes is one of the greatest dramatists in the history of the west, and the Bacchae is one of his most powerful and violent tragedies.
		The Bacchae is a major work of tragedy, and it established a lasting cult of Dionysus in the west, all the way up to Nietzsche and the Birth of Tragedy.
		Besides the Bacchae there are two truly great plays centering around the tragic figure of Iphigenia (a daughter sacrificed to Artemis by Agamemnon so his fleet could set sail for Troy in Homer's Iliad).
	www.amazon.com /Bacchae-Other-Plays-Penguin-Classics/dp/0140440445 (1607 words)

	Past Productions: The Bacchae
		One of the greatest of all Greek dramas, The Bacchae powerfully dramatizes the conflict between the emotional and rational sides of the human psyche.
		When the people of Thebes deny the existence of the god Dionysos, he punishes them by unleashing the full force of female sexuality, thereby destroying social order and driving them to certain tragedy.
		By turns savage, comic, and intensely lyrical, The Bacchae, once a war cry for free love, is particularly poignant today in the aftermath of the sexual revolution.
	www.amrep.org /past/bacchae/bacchae.html (330 words)

	CalArts - News and Events: Press Releases (Site not responding. Last check: )
		October 20, Valencia, CA -- The CalArts School of Theater presents Euripides' The Bacchae, adapted by C. Williams and directed by graduate student Mira Kingsley.
		The Bacchae follows the god Dionysus as he endeavors to avenge his mother's death and spread his cult among the women of Thebes.
		It blurs the lines between the god, the human, and the animal; it redefines dance by merging the exquisite and the grotesque movement," comments director Kingsley.
	www.calarts.edu /news/pressrelease/2006/10.20.06bacchae.html (416 words)

	The Bacchanals - The Bacchae
		The Bacchae's run was interesting in that it took quite a while to crack just how to convey to the audience that the first few songs were meant to be tongue-in-cheek and that it was okay to laugh.
		We'd already begun work on Romeo and Juliet before The Bacchae opened, and with the show only two months away, it was great to have such a big success with The Bacchae to keep people reminded of who we were for when the next show came around...
		It's hard to talk about The Bacchae without mentioning Irene's mishaps behind the wheel, not all of which were her fault.
	www.thebacchanals.net /plays/bacchae (9471 words)

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