Medea -- Euripides

<p><b>A student edition of this challenging and popular tragedy with notes and commentary.</b> <p/>The most controversial of the Greek tragedians, Euripedes is also<br>the most modern in his sympathies, a dramatist who handles the complex<br>emotions of his characters with extraordinary depth and insight. <br>Wronged and discarded by her husband, Medea gradually reveals<br>her revenge in its increasing horror, while the audience is led to<br>understand the incomprehensible; a woman who murders her own children.<br>Since its first production (431 BC), the play has exerted an<br>irresistible attraction for actors and directors alike. <p/>Translated by J.Michael Walton.</p><br><br><b>Author:</b> Euripides<br><b>Publisher:</b> Bloomsbury Publishing PLC<br><b>Published:</b> 07/01/2003<br><b>Pages:</b> 112<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.16lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 7.36h x 4.84w x 0.30d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9780413770301<br><p><b>About the Author</b><br><p>Euripides was born near Athens between 485 and 480 BC and grew up<br>during the years of Athenian recovery after the Persian Wars. His first<br>play was presented in 455 BC and he wrote some hundred altogether. His<br>later plays are marked by a sense of disillusion at the futility of<br>human aspiration which amounts on occasion to a philosophy of<br>absurdism. A year or two before his death he left Athens to live at the<br>court of the king of Macedon, dying there in 406 BC. Nineteen of his<br>plays survive, includi