Medea (NHB Classic Plays)

Medea (NHB Classic Plays)

by Euripides
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 04/12/2014

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Euripides' classic about the woman who murders her own children in revenge for her husband's infidelity, here given a distinctive Scots flavour by the poet and playwright Liz Lochhead.


Winner of the Saltire Society's award for SCOTTISH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2001


'This outstanding work should firmly establish the Glasgow playwright as Scotland's greatest living dramatist... the finest piece I have seen on the Scottish stage this year' - Scotland on Sunday


'Liz Lochhead's stunning new version of Medea is the kind of interpretation - brave, visionary, risky - that blows a well-known text apart and reassembles it in a completely new light... ancient but new, cosmic yet agonisingly familiar' - Scotsman


'Some of the most exciting recent work on Greek drama in the English language' - Sunday Times

ISBN:
9781780015293
9781780015293
Category:
Plays
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
04-12-2014
Language:
English
Publisher:
Nick Hern Books
Euripides

Euripides (c.485-07 BC) was an Athenian born into a family of considerable rank. Disdaining the public duties expected of him, Euripides spent a life of quiet introspection, spending much of his life in a cave on Salamis.

Late in life he voluntarily exiled himself to the court of Archelaus, King of Macedon, where he wrote The Bacchae, regarded by many as his greatest work. Euripides is thought to have written 92 plays, only 18 of which survive.

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