Articles with keyword: comic self-consciousness/awareness

Euripides’ Ion l.528: an example of comic self-consciousness*
Vasileios Dimoglidis dimoglvs@mail.uc.edu

ELECTRYONE 

2021
Volume 8, Issue 1

 | pp.

1-7

Abstract:

Euripides’ Ion is a play with elements that challenge tragic gravity, and bring about a lighter tone. Although the body of criticism that discusses the comic elements of Euripides’ tragedies (esp. the so-called tragic–comedies) is extensive, little attention has been given to cases of comic self-consciousness. The aim of this paper is to examine Ion’s l.528, and more concretely Ion’s utterance ...ταῦτ᾽ οὖν οὐ γέλως κλύειν ἐμοί;, as an example of comic selfawareness, that is, an instance that Euripides himself recognizes, in a metatheatrical way, as comic, while commenting at the same time on its reception on the audience’s part.