Jiang identifies the Bacchae as Euripides's posthumously returned masterpiece and frames it as the final major example after Trojan Women.
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Jiang says Euripides believed theater should awaken people, challenge their reality, and educate or edify them; this made him hated by contemporaries but respected by later generations.
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Jiang says Euripides believed theater should awaken people, challenge their reality, and educate or edify them; this made him hated by contemporaries but respected by later generations.
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"Okay? He died away from Athens. And his last play, he wrote his last play called, the Bacchae in Macedonia. And after he died,..."
"And all humans are alike, OK? OK? Any more questions? Yeah, the Athenians, OK, so the thing about Euripides was that we today, scholars..."
"And that's because well, Euribides was dead, OK? And they were able to see the genius and imagination of the Bac Chai much more..."
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