ADVENTURES AND MISADVENTURES OF IPHIGENIE - IN TAURIS AND AFTER.

Goethe's 'Iphigenie auf Tauris' occupies a key position in the reception history of Euripides' play, and has itself been subjected, particularly in more recent years, to radical and even hostile reinterpretations. But it is surely still possible to take seriously the idealistic, but not wholly unrealistic, humane message which Goethe intended it to convey. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]