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Brian Friel's Greek tragedy : narrative, drama, and fate in Living Quarters

Lloyd, Michael (Michael A.) (Irish University Review, 2000)

This article examines the use made in Brian Friel's play Living Quarters (1977) of Greek tragedy, and in particular of Euripides' Hippolytus (428 B.C.). The article discusses the character Sir in detail, and examines how ...
Divine and human action in Euripides' Ion

Lloyd, Michael (Michael A.) (de Gruyter, 1986)

This article argues that the ending of Euripides' play Ion is the result of an interaction between the plan of the god Apollo and the reactions of the human characters Creusa and Ion, and that the result is better than it ...
The language of the gods : politeness in the prologue of the Troades

Lloyd, Michael (Michael A.) (Brill, 2009-08)

This chapter discusses the dialogue between Athena and Poseidon (Euripides, Troades 48-97) in the light of face-threat politeness theory.
The politeness of Achilles : off-record conversation strategies in Homer and the meaning of kertomia

Lloyd, Michael (Michael A.) (The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies, 2004)

This article examines social interaction in Homer in the light of modern conversation analysis, especially Grice's theory of conversational implicature. Some notoriously problematic utterances are explained in terms of ...
Sophocles in the light of face-threat politeness theory

Lloyd, Michael (Michael A.) (Brill, 2006)

This chapter examines Sophocles' plays in the light of face-threat politeness theory. It deals with the subject under the following headings: face-threat politeness theory, positive politeness, negative politeness, off-record ...
Sophocles the ironist

Lloyd, Michael (Michael A.) (Brill, 2012-09)

This chapter argues that while Sophocles may exploit relatively 'stable' irony, where the audience is confidently aware of truth hidden from the characters, he also uses more complex and 'unstable' irony which unsettles ...
Space in Euripides

Lloyd, Michael (Michael A.) (Brill, 2012-03)

This is the chapter on Euripides in a volume which discusses space in Greek literature from the point of view of narratology.
Time in Euripides

Lloyd, Michael (Michael A.) (Brill, 2007)

This chapter is a narratological study of time in Euripides.
The tragic aorist

Lloyd, Michael (Michael A.) (Cambridge University Press on behalf of The Classical Association, 1999-05)

This article discusses the 'tragic' or 'instantaneous' use of the aorist tense in ancient Greek. It argues that traditional interpretations are inadequate, since most examples are neither more 'instantaneous' nor more ...