TRAGEDY'S END. Closure and Innovation in Euripidean Drama.

First edition, first printing. Publisher's original green cloth, with silver titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm, bright and fresh. The contents are clean throughout, and without inscriptions. There is a publisher's 'damaged' stamp to the title page (although no notable damage is visible other than a small black pen mark to the bottom edge of the closed text block). Complete with the near fine, lightly rubbed and creased dustwrapper, which is just a little toned to the extreme top edge, and otherwise without loss, or tears.

The author argues that the infamous and artificial endings in Euripides' works deny the viewer access to a stable or authoritative reading of the play, and offers the first large-scale study of closure in classical literature through close examinations of plot, ending, and generic innovation in 'Hippolytus', 'Trojan Women', 'Heracles', 'Helen', 'Orestes', and 'Phoenician Women'.