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• Unleashed, she is a maenad: not crabby but sardonic and perpetually restless, she scrambles over the stage, squaring up to several men at a time; she drinks from a hip flask; she wees; she smokes – and she fumes. The Taming of the Shrew; The Trial of Ubu; Our New Girl – review
• The Maenads were Dionysus' female votaries who accompanied him when he traveled.
• Other critics, who do like him, but who have limited their study to a certain portion of his books, compare him to a worker in gold, who carefully chases or embosses dainty processions of fauns and maenads. Essays in Little
• There has been speculation that the character of Mary Ann is actually the maenad. Questions About Season 2 True Blood | myFiveBest
• Many of the works here tell a layered story: A volute-krater -- a vessel used to mix water and wine -- is illustrated with two ceremonies: a formal one with a woman preparing to make an offering to the gods; the other, a frolic of maenads and satyrs. Worshipping Women: Onassis Center
• This does not necessarily mean that Euripides was an initiate of Dionysian mysteries, or that his portrayal of the god's worshippers (the Maenads) is an honest one.
• Even in the uttermost frenzy of energy is each maenad movement royally, imperially, incedingly upborne. Smoke and Mirrors: Internalizing the Magic Lantern show in _Vilette_
• The maenad lived in the woods and was responsible for scratching the heck out of Sookie. Questions About Season 2 True Blood | myFiveBest
• If it's not witches (a la "True Blood's" detour last summer into the "maenad" orgy-mama storyline; boy, did she get tiresome), then it's werewolves. Season 3 of 'True Blood' adds a power struggle and many new characters
• The maenadic dances were usually based on either walking - taking long steps and advancing rapidly - or running, which resembled a series of leaps.