Medea and Other Plays
Four plays by the Greek dramatist who started to interpret human behavior without reference to the wisdom of gods.
Four plays by the Greek dramatist who started to interpret human behavior without reference to the wisdom of gods.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780140441291 (0140441298)
ASIN: 140441298
Publish date: August 30th 1963
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 205
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Classics,
Academic,
School,
Literature,
Cultural,
Classic Literature,
Plays,
Drama,
Theatre,
Poetry,
Greece,
Mythology
Reading progress update: I've read 138 out of 206 pages. Medea: You will regret what you did to me, Jason! Jason: I regretted it alright How great can your anger be? To what extent are you ready to hurt those who hurt you? Would you kill your own children to appease a great offense? Medea is rea...
With beautiful clarity and realism, Euripedes crafted dramatic interpretations of Homeric tales with moral subtlety and timeless resonance. I will definitely keep coming back to this collection.
So far I've only read Medea, the 431 BC Euripides play about hell hathing no fury like a woman scorned. (Did you know that quote's not from Shakespeare? I guess I just dimly assumed it must be. It's from The Mourning Bride (1697) by someone named William Congreve. Same play opens with "Music has cha...
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