Bacchae

Question 1

Stuttard

Answer 1

‘Bacchae is one of Euripides’ most disturbing plays.’

Question 2

Stuttard

Answer 2

‘Bacchae includes issues of gender and identity, madness and rationality, vengeance and repression, foreignness and fanaticism so extreme that it leads a young god to gloat in icy triumph over an enemy’s severed head.’

Question 3

Morwood

Answer 3

‘Dionysus is both ‘most terrifying and most gentle to mortals.’

Question 4

Morwood

Answer 4

‘In driving the Theban women from the city, Dionysus has disrupted the city’s social structure. The women have abandoned not only their looms but their children too.’

Question 5

Morwood

Answer 5

‘Agaue is barbaric’

Question 6

Morwood

Answer 6

‘Dionysus enjoys human suffering like a sport’

Question 7

Edith Hall

Answer 7

‘3 Actors must have affected the impact of the performance’

Question 8

Foley

Answer 8

‘Euripides presents Dionysus as a director who constructs his own play within a play.’

Question 9

Rosie Wyles

Answer 9

‘The house is transformed by this scene from a symbol of royal authority to a symbol of Dionysus’ power.’

Question 10

Rosie Wyles

Answer 10

‘The appearance of Pentheus cross-dressed and with bacchic accessories offers a visual representation of Dionysus’ full control over him.’