PENTHEUS

pĕnˈthēəs, in Greek mythology, king of Thebes, son of Cadmus' daughter Agave. When Dionysus came to Thebes, Pentheus denied his divinity and tried to prevent his ecstatic rites. The women of Thebes, led by Agave, were driven mad by the offended god and tore Pentheus to pieces. The story is the subject of Euripides' Bacchae.

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The Bakkhai
Book by Euripides, Robert Bagg; University of Massachusetts Press, 1978
Subjects: Bacchantes--Drama, Dionysus (Greek Deity)--Drama, Pentheus (Greek Mythology)--Drama
...contempt for women and any unmanly act. Pentheus furious scorn of Bakkhic things as effeminate...The knife-edge on which are balanced Pentheus impulse to fury and his longing to surrender...himself in the Strangers care is something Pentheus does explicitly in his final scene...
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Iphigenia among the Taurians; Bacchae; Iphigenia at Aulis; Rhesus
Book by James Morwood, Euripides; Oxford University Press, 1999
Subjects: Bacchantes--Drama, Dionysus (Greek Deity)--Drama, Euripides--Translations Into English, Iphigenia (Greek Mythology)--Drama, Pentheus (Greek Mythology)--Drama, Rhesus (Legendary Character)--Drama
PENTHEUS. What form do these rituals take for...Bacchic worship. They must not know. PENTHEUS. What benefit do the rituals bring to...you to hear, but it is worth knowing. PENTHEUS. You faked that answer skilfully to make...
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Bakkhai
Book by Euripides, Alan Shapiro, Reginald Gibbons, Charles Segal; Oxford University Press, 2000
Subjects: Bacchantes--Drama, Dionysus (Greek Deity)--Drama, Drama, Pentheus (Greek Mythology)--Drama
...to the god. The long scene between Pentheus and the Stranger that follows then repeats...increasingly displays his power, and Pentheus increasingly displays his vulnerabilities. We recall that Pentheus is a youth (321, 1110), almost beardless...
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The Essential Euripides: Dancing in Dark Times
Book by Robert Emmet Meagher; Bolchazy-Carducci, 2002
Subjects: Bacchantes--Drama, Dionysus (Greek Deity)--Drama, Euripides--Criticism And Interpretation, Euripides--Translations Into English, Hecuba (Legendary Character)--Drama, Helen Of Troy (Greek Mythology)--Drama, Mythology, Greek, In Literature, Pentheus (Greek Mythology)--Drama, Trojan War--Drama
...too much too soon only spoils things. Pentheus, presumably, would disagree. One cannot...And so, we might add, are we. Like Pentheus, we must be lured out of our ignorant...break down the defenses of the likes of Pentheus or the audience. The voyeurism of Pentheus...
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Bacchae
Book by E. R. Dodds, Euripides; Clarendon Press, 1986
Subjects: Bacchantes--Drama, Dionysus (Greek Deity)--Drama, Pentheus (Greek Mythology)--Drama
conversation with Pentheus, as some of the older edd. took it...speech by announcing the approach of Pentheus Tyrrell . But probably the phrase means...excited he is! a hint to the producer. Pentheus is characterized throughout by lack...
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journal articles on: Pentheus  - 31 results

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Euripides' the Bacchae by Kneehigh Theatre
Journal article by Judith Milhous; Western European Stages, Vol. 17, 2005
Subjects: Euripides (484-06 BC), Kneehigh Theatre, London England, Musical theater, Rice, Emma
...because they were so active. Dionysus, Pentheus, and Agave (Robert Lucskay, Eva Magyar...as cult leader, not as god) and then Pentheus as bacchante were pursued through the...immediately intertwined with demonstrations of Pentheus anger, so they got less stage time to...
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Euripides' Bacchae in New Zealand Dress *
Journal article by John Davidson; Antichthon, Vol. 41, 2007
Subjects: Motion pictures, Theater, Vietnam War
...the thrust of the play in terms of the Pentheus figures forced recognition of the chaos...with Semele and Dionysus or Agave and Pentheus. The agent of Ennis destruction is certainly...New Zealand public at large. The plays Pentheus figure, John Ennis, with his materialistic...
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Summer at the National Theatre
Journal article by Bruce Kirle; Western European Stages, Vol. 14, 2002
Subjects: Artistic directors, Hall, Peter, National Theatre-UK, Nunn, Trevor, Performing artists, Theater criticism, Theater directors & producers, Theaters & cinemas, Wright, Nicolas
...strip the play of much of its passion. Pentheus becomes a totalitarian stereotype, which...Underneath his tyrannical exterior, Pentheus is a victim of his instincts. Here...servant; William Houston doubled as Pentheus and Agave, and David Ryall played Cadmus...
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'The Roman Actor,' Censorship, and Dramatic Autonomy
Journal article by David A. Reinheimer; Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 38, 1998
Subjects: English drama--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Massinger, Philip--Criticism, interpretation, etc., The Roman Actor (Theater)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Theater--Censorship
...Latinus answers, "Agaves phrensie / With Pentheus bloudie end" (I.i.1-2), referring...substituting Domitia for Agave and Domitian for Pentheus. While Renaissance interpretations of...been ambivalent,(21) the story of Pentheus and Dionysus from Euripides Bacchae lends...
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Krzysztof Warlikowski: Theatre as a Collective (Auto) Therapy
Journal article by Justyna Drobnik-Rogers; TheatreForum, 2009
...divine. Their explicit elation enrages Pentheus and accelerates his decision to capture...a reference to Catholic symbolism). Pentheus is dressed in red, which signifies his...of the kingdom. In the second act, Pentheus exchanges his sporty red jacket for a...
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magazine articles on: Pentheus  - 10 results

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Hans Werner Henze and the Bassarids
Magazine article by Robert Matthew-Walker; Musical Opinion, Vol. 135, November 2011
...subjective and objective thought. King Pentheus, having been handed the throne of the...appears in various seductive forms), Pentheus believing himself to be superior in position...Dionysus. Through such tota rejection, Pentheus comes to be destroyed by the very forces...
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From Agavë to Zeus
Magazine article by Eric Hart; Stage Directions, Vol. 24, February 2011
Subjects: Actors, Clay, Product development, Theater
...alert) making the severed head of King Pentheus for the climactic scene takes some pretty...carrying out the head of her son. King Pentheus. The director, JoAnne Akalaitis, wanted...in gore, they wanted to see more of Pentheus face, with strips torn away here and...
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There Will Be Blood in Central Park
Magazine article by Randy Gener; American Theatre, Vol. 26, July 2009
Subjects: Akalaitis, JoAnne--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Akalaitis, JoAnne--Works, The Bacchae (Euripides) (Play), Theatrical directors--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Theatrical directors--Works, Theatrical producers and directors--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Theatrical producers and directors--Works
...for instance, the critical moment when Dionysus convinces Pentheus, emblem of male rationalism, to dress in womens clothing...is proud of the garment and the female characteristics. Pentheus, by contrast, is delusional when he comes out as a woman...
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The Shape of Plays to Come: Our Theatre Is Polarized into Two Cultures. What Will Make It Whole Again
Magazine article by Todd London; American Theatre, Vol. 19, November 2002
Subjects: Playwriting--Finance, Playwriting--Forecasts
...written. My mind keeps doubling back, accusing itself of dramatizing--the institutional Pentheus on one side, the artistic Dionysus on the other. Pentheus, king of Thebes, up in a tree, decked out in the Maenads drag--peeking down at the...
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Greek Odyssey. Simon Goldhill Explains How He Came to Be Hooked on Greek Tragedy at an Early Age-And Has Stayed Hooked
Magazine article by Simon Goodhill; History Today, Vol. 57, December 2007
Subjects: Greek drama (Tragedy)--Appreciation, Greek tragedy--Appreciation, Theater--Appreciation
...Old Vic was hung with huge scarlet cloths up into the flies, and at the moment when Dionysus calls for the destruction of Pentheus palace, the cloths fell to the ground revealing the theatres bare bones behind. The play was overwhelming in its sensuous...
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newspaper articles on: Pentheus  - 7 results

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Laughter Distracts from the Tragedy; THEATRE
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), January 17, 2010
Subjects: The Bacchae (Euripides) (Play)
...dress is underlined when at one stage Pentheus, disguised as a woman, enters like...mother and because the king of Thebes, Pentheus, has forbidden Thebans to worship him...destroyed by lightning and earthquake, has Pentheus, his cousin, torn to pieces by his...
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Greek Tragedy for Our Times; THEATRE
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), November 5, 2004
...severed head of her adult son, King Pentheus, which she has helped detach from his...behaviour will not be tolerated," shouts Pentheus, who though dressed in dark, military...while the roles they take are not. Pentheus is held in the fierce gaze of an imposing...
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Dumbed-Down Dionysus; Dolled Up: Alan Cumming Plays Dionysus as a Hyper-Queen
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), September 10, 2007
...humans,and raving Agave, who tears to pieces her adult son, Pentheus, then appearingwith his severed head whose bloody features...Dionysuss seduction of Tony Currans tense, tight-suited Pentheus, persuadedto slip into female disguise to spy upon the gods...
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TEN OF THE GREATEST; Historian, Author and Fellow of New College, Oxford; CLASSICAL MYTHS
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), May 1, 2011
Subjects: Historians, Universities and colleges
...chariot on the road. 8 AGAVE Agave was the mother of young Pentheus, who denied Dionysuss parentage. So Dionysus took revenge...Thebes out of their wits. They retreated to the mountains where Pentheus, tricked by Dionysus into believing they had all gone o to...
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The Guide: EtcEtc: Mind That Computer
Newspaper article by Robin Greer; The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland), February 11, 2000
...holding a public meeting at Posthouse Forte Dunmurry on March 6 ; or e-mail boss review man Anthony Everitt at: anthony@pentheus. demon. co. uk Have you noticed that McDonalds, the burger people, are using the old New Labour theme tune, Things Can...
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encyclopedia articles on: Pentheus  - 3 results

 
 
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Pentheus
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
PENTHEUS pen the s, in Greek mythology, king...Agave. When Dionysus came to Thebes, Pentheus denied his divinity and tried to prevent...driven mad by the offended god and tore Pentheus to pieces. The story is the subject of...
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Agave , in Greek Mythology
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
AGAVE , in Greek mythology ga ve: see Pentheus . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Euripides
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Women (c.409), on the story of the Seven against Thebes ; Orestes (408); Iphigenia in Aulis and the Bacchae, on the Pentheus story, both posthumously produced (405); and Rhesus, doubtfully attributed to Euripides. Provocative, concerned with...


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