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Journal of British Literature and Culture, no.3, pp.1-18, 2025 (Peer-Reviewed Journal)
Ecology increasingly occupies literature due to the growing ecocritical attitude and environmental consciousness delineated in literary texts. In this context, the relationship between drama and ecology has become the focus of many critics. The roots of ecodrama can be traced to ancient Greek theatre, and the Theatre of Dionysus, largely acknowledged as one of the first theatre spaces. Nature, an albatross or a healer to humankind at different times, embodies the greatest enigma to people which has beaten a path to the rise of anthropocentric and ecocritical ideologies. This article chases after this everlasting conundrum in Euripides’ The Bacchae which presents the clash between nature and humankind, featuring ecocritical and anthropocentric ideology respectively, ending with the triumph of nature.