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Medea and Other Plays Euripides

Medea and Other Plays By Euripides

Medea and Other Plays by Euripides


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Summary

Features four tragedies, all of which focus on a central character, once powerful, brought down by betrayal, jealousy, guilt and hatred.

Medea and Other Plays Summary

Medea and Other Plays by Euripides

Medea/Hecabe/Electra/Heracles

Four devastating Greek tragedies showing the powerful brought down by betrayal, jealousy, guilt and hatred

The first playwright to depict suffering without reference to the gods, Euripides made his characters speak in human terms and face the consequences of their actions. In Medea, a woman rejected by her lover takes hideous revenge by murdering the children they both love, and Hecabe depicts the former queen of Troy, driven mad by the prospect of her daughter's sacrifice to Achilles. Electra portrays a young woman planning to avenge the brutal death of her father at the hands of her mother, while in Heracles the hero seeks vengeance against the evil king who has caused bloodshed in his family.

Translated with an Introduction by PHILIP VELLACOTT

About Euripides

Euripides was an Athenian born in 484BC. A member of a family of considerable rank, he disliked performing the public duties expected of him, preferring a life of introspection. He was not a popular figure, and at some point (and for a reason unknown) he went into voluntary exile at the court of Archelaus, King of Macedon. He died c.407BC and is thought to have written around ninety-two plays, of which seventeen survive.

Table of Contents

Medea and Other PlaysIntroduction

Medea

Hecabe

Electra

Heracles

Notes

Additional information

GOR001107117
9780140441291
0140441298
Medea and Other Plays by Euripides
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Penguin Books Ltd
20040805
208
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