Euripides and Dionysus : An Interpretation of the Bacchae / R. P. Winnington-Ingram.

Preface -- Chapter I. Introductory -- II. Euripides and Dionysus (r) -- III. Introduction to Bacchanals -- IV. Three Men -- V. The Peace of the Bacchanals -- VI. The God and the King -- VII. Bacchanals upon the Mountain -- VIII. The Hunt -- IX. The Kill --
X. A Bacchanal Wakes -- XI. Euripides and Dionysus (2) -- XII. Euripides and Dionysus (3) -- Appendix. Euripides the Rationalist

Euripides and Dionysus is a brilliant and influential study of the god of Greek drama and the one surviving tragedy, Euripides' Bacchae, in which he appears. The play has been intensively discussed by critics and very often staged, imitated and adapted in the years since Winnington-Ingram wrote this pioneering monograph, which is still cited as if it were a contemporary work of criticism. His interpretation, presented with great elegance, was composed at a time (just before the Second World War) when he was deeply troubled by what he had seen of fascism; it has special interest now for its place in the history of reception.