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Barlow, Shirley A. The Imagery of Euripides. London: Bristol Classical Press, 1986. Unique, wide-ranging linguistic study.

Burnett, Anne Pippin. Catastrophe Survived: Euripides' plays of Mixed Reversal. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971. Studies Euripides's unorthodox interpretation of the tragic form.

Collard, C. Euripides. Oxford: Clarendon Press, for the Classical Association, 1981. Useful pamphlet introduction for students with no Greek, surveying all the surviving plays.

Foley, Helen P. Ritual Irony: Poetry and Sacrifice in Euripides. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1985. Studies the social, political, and religious context of the tragedies, and the context of their performance.

Lesky, Albin. Greek Tragedy. London: Benn, 1965. Translated by H. A. Frankfort. General work on Greek tragedy and the different critical approaches.

Micheline, Ann Norris. Euripides and the Tragic Tradition. Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, 1987. Feminist approach to Euripides's drama.

Murray, Gilbert. Euripides in his Age. London: Greenwood Press, 1979. Originally published in 1913. A vivid, enduring sketch.

Powell, Anton, ed. Euripides, Women, and Sexuality. London: Routledge, 1990. Collection of essays concentrating on Euripides's portrayal of women and of sexuality.

Segal. Euripides and the Poetics of Sorrow: Art, Gender and Commemoration in 'Alcestis', 'Hippolytus', and 'Hecuba'. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1994.

Vellacott, P. Ironic Drama. A Study of Euripides' Method and Meaning. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1976. Holds that the plays conceal radical criticism of society.