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Medea

By: Euripedes

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An empathetic look at the destructive power of female passion from the dramatist Aristotle called “the most tragic of poets.” First performed in 431 BC, Medea is Euripides most powerful and well-known play. Cast aside by Jason when he pursues another woman, Medea seeks the ultimate revenge against her faithless husband by murdering his new wife along with the two people who matter to both Jason and Medea most: their children. In the hands of a Greek tragedian renowned for his eloquent and complex female characters, Medea shines a light on the full range of human emotion with keen psychological insight, bringing the ancient myth richly to life for the modern reader.

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1504083571

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9781504083577

Electra

By: Euripedes

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Electra

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From the dramatist Aristotle called “the most tragic of poets,” a retelling of the classical myth of a family torn apart by vengeance. One of the most well-known tragedies by Euripides, Electra brings to life the story of siblings driven to matricide to avenge their father’s death. With a unique empathy for the plight of his female characters, Euripides places Electra’s passion and sorrow at the center of the play, gracing her with a complexity that distinguishes the tragedian from contemporaries Sophocles and Aeschylus, who also wrote versions of the myth, and making Euripides’s Electra as relevant and riveting for the modern reader as when it was first produced in the fifth century BC.

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1504083598

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9781504083591

The Bacchae

By: Euripedes

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The Bacchae

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This great work of classical Greek theater is a profound reflection on faith, fanaticism, and human nature. Considered by many to be Euripides’s most important work, The Bacchae has been rousing audiences since the fifth century BC. Appearing in human form, the Greek god Dionysus has come to seek vengeance on his mortal cousin, Pentheus, King of Thebes. The Greek ruler has proclaimed that, far from being the son of Zeus, Dionysus is a mere mortal. Angered at the insult, the god initiates the Theban women in Dionysian rites, inspiring them to ecstatic dance and wild abandon—mysterious acts that will tempt Pentheus—even as he is lured to his tragic end. Controversial in its time and innovative in structure, The Bacchae was written after Euripides’s exile from Athens and published posthumously. Today it stands as one of the more provocative and poetic Greek tragedies by a writer whose intriguing plots and keen psychological insight make him the more modern of the ancient authors.

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150408358X

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Alcestis

A Play

By: Euripedes

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Alcestis

A Play

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In the years before his death at age sixty-eight in 1998, Hughes translated several classical works with great energy and ingenuity. His Tales from Ovid was called "one of the great works of our century" (Michael Hofmann, The Times, London), his Oresteia of Aeschylus is considered the difinitive version, and his Phèdrewas acclaimed on stage in New York as well as London. Hughes's version of Euripides's Alcestis, the last of his translations, has the great brio of those works, and it is a powerful and moving conclusion to the great final phase of Hughes's career. Euripides was, with Aeschylus and Sophocles, one of the greatest of Greek dramatists. Alcestis tells the story of a king's grief for his wife, Alcestis, who has given her young life so that he may live. As translated by Hughes, the story has a distinctly modern sensibility while retaining the spirit of antiquity. It is a profound meditation on human mortality. Ted Hughes's last book of poems, Birthday Letters, won the Whitbread Book of the Year Prize. He was Poet Laureate to Queen Elizabeth II and lived in Devon, England until he died in 1998.

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114

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Macmillan

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0374527261

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9780374527266

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Adaptations of 14 Plays (plus One)

By: Herbert R. Coursen,Euripedes

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Adaptations of 14 Plays (plus One)

By: Herbert R. Coursen,Euripedes

Adaptation of euripides plays: Rheseus, Mcashus, Media, Hippolytus, Andremuche, Itecuba The Suppliants, Hercules, The Trojan Women, Eloctra, Itelan, Ion, Iphiqania in Taurus, Bacchrs, and an original play, The Trape War.

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464

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0972271023

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9780972271028

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