Elisabeth KnodelDie Geburt der Tragödie aus dem Geiste der Mutter: Euripides und Federico García Lorca

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“¡Creed en las visiones de la Grecia ideal!”
(“Believe in the visions of the ideal Greece!”)

Federico García Lorca, Granada’s most famous poet, uses phrases like this to express his admiration of the Greek antiquity, which takes a significant share in his numerous prosaic, poetic and dramatic works.

Regarding dramas, the dramas rurales (Bodas de sangre, Yerma, La casa de Bernarda Alba) have a strong affinity with the Greek tragedy, especially with Euripides (Bakchen, Hippolytos). Moreover, Sophokles’ Antigone has to be mentioned in this context.

The essential tertium comparationis of Greek and Lorquian dramas is the woman who changes under Dionysian influence into a murderous mother.

In this comparative research study, proceeding from the respective socio-cultural context of Greek and Lorquian drama Elisabeth Knodel determines similarities and differences. Thereby, she emphasises the religious concept within the works while focusing on Dionysus or the duende.

Then, a comparison based on the texts relates the six tragedies, which are in their original language: A connection of Dionysus and the woman, especially the mother, basing on ‘paternalistic opposition’, e.g. home and state or human right and natural right, emerges in this comparison.

It is of particular interest to find out why it is this relation that plays such an important role both in Greek and Lorquian tragedies.

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