“What is Hecuba to [me]?”: The Impossibility of Catharsis and Rupture of Representation in Marina Carr’s Hecuba

Marina Carr’s Hecuba (2015), an adaptation of Euripides’s tragedy Hecuba (424 BC), resonates with Hamlet’s famous line “What is Hecuba to him, or he to her?” (Shakespeare, 1599/2003, 2.2.511) for the contemporary spectator by arousing pain and guilt instead of a cathartic effect. In the adaptation,...

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Main Author: Ayşen Demir Kılıç
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Istanbul University Press 2024-12-01
Series:Litera: Dil, Edebiyat ve Kültür Araştırmaları Dergisi
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Online Access:https://cdn.istanbul.edu.tr/file/JTA6CLJ8T5/EEDFAB8174D241C396C36E602D06BEB8
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