Medea
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Medea
World premiere of a new version of Euripides' classic Medea. Plays in London as part of the Almeida's Greek Season. Medea's marriage is breaking up. And so is everything else. Testing the limits of revenge and liberty, Euripides' seminal play cuts...
Electra
Electra
Medea
De måste dö, och eftersom de måste dö ska jag som fött dem döda dem. Av de sjutton pjäser som finns bevarade av Euripides hand är Medea den mest spelade och älskade. Dramat hade premiär i Athen våren 431 f Kr och kretsar kring klassi...
Euripides: Scenes from Iphigenia in Aulis and Iphigenia in Tauris
Euripides: Scenes from Iphigenia in Aulis and Iphigenia in Tauris
Backanterna ; Ifigenia I Aulis
Euripides är den yngste av de tre stora grekiska tragöderna, och Backanterna och Ifigenia i Aulis blev hans sista tragedier. De uppfördes först efter författarens död år 406 f.Kr. och bildar en magnifik slutpunkt på den klassiska grekiska dramatiken. I Backanterna kommer guden Dionysos till Thebe i Grekland och kräver att bli erkänd. Kung Pentheus möter honom med arrogans och misstro, och gudens hämnd blir grym - han är »oändligt fruktansvärd, och med oändlig mildhet«. I dramat ställs den övermodiga rationalismen mot den mogna livsvisdomen. I Ifigenia i Aulis drabbas den grekiska hären av stiltje på sin väg till Troja. För att ge grekerna förlig vind kräver gudinnan Artemis att deras ledare Agamemnon ska offra sin dotter Ifigenia. Agamemnon hamnar i en till synes olöslig konflikt, där kärleken till dottern ställs mot pliktkänslan och omgivningens tryck. Dramerna är översatta av Göran O. Eriksson och Jan Stolpe. Den senare har även skrivit förord och kommentarer.
Medea
I choose to take back my life. My life. Medea is a wife and a mother. For the sake of her husband, Jason, she's left her home and borne two sons in exile. But when he abandons his family for a new life, Medea faces banishment and separation from h...
Medea and Other Plays
Alcestis/Medea/The Children of Heracles/Hippolytus 'One of the best prose translations of Euripides I have seen' Robert Fagles This selection of plays shows Euripides transforming the titanic figures of Greek myths into recognizable, fallible huma...
Medea
Though it wasn't successful at its first performance, in the centuries since then, Euripides's Medea has established itself as one of the most powerful and influential of the Greek tragedies. The story of the wronged wife who avenges herself upon ...
Medea
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Medea
Medea
Medea
Medea
Euripides: Herakles
Euripides: Herakles
Medea
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Medea
About Sheila Murnaghan’s translation “A terrific new translation—Murnaghan’s Medea is both terrifying and sympathetic, an emotionally complex portrayal that leaves the reader no simple answers.” —KIRK ORMAND, author of Controlling Desires: Sexuality in Ancient Greece and Rome
Greek Tragedy: Three Plays
Greek Tragedy: Three Plays
Euripides: Ion
Euripides: Ion
Bacchae
This stunning translation, by the acclaimed poet Robin Robertson (Forward Prize, Man Booker shortlist 2018), has reinvigorated Euripides' devastating take of a god's revenge for contemporary readers, bringing the ancient verse to fervid, brutal li...
Bacchae
Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price At the whim of Dionysos, a son is torn to pieces by his own mother during the famous women-only Bacchanalian ritual. The story of revenge by the half-man half-god on Pentheus, King of...
Three Plays
One of the greatest playwrights of Ancient Greece, the works of Euripides (484 406 BC) were revolutionary in their depiction of tragic events caused by flawed humanity, and in their use of the gods as symbols of human nature. The three plays in th...
Iph
"Since it premiered in Athens in 405 BC alongside Bacchai, Euripides' Iphigeneia in Aulis has been one of the most performed and re-imagined of Ancient Greek Tragedies. The story of how Iphigeneia, the daughter of Agamemnon, agrees to her own...
Bacchae
One of the greatest of all Greek tragedies - savage, comic and intensely lyrical - The Bacchae powerfully dramatises the conflict between the emotional and rational sides of the human psyche. The magnetic young Dionysus - icon, hedonist, god - ret...
Andromache
Andromache
Grief Lessons
Now in paperback. Euripides, the last of the three great tragedians of ancient Athens, reached the height of his renown during the disastrous Peloponnesian War, when democratic Athens was brought down by its own outsized ambitions. 'Euripides,' the classicist Bernard Knox has written, 'was born never to live in peace with himself and to prevent the rest of mankind from doing so.' His plays were shockers: he unmasked heroes, revealing them as foolish and savage, and he wrote about the powerless-women and children, slaves and barbarians-for whom tragedy was not so much exceptional as unending. Euripides' plays rarely won first prize in the great democratic competitions of ancient Athens, but their combustible mixture of realism and extremism fascinated audiences throughout the Greek world. In the last days of the Peloponnesian War, Athenian prisoners held captive in far-off Sicily were said to have won their freedom by reciting snatches of Euripides' latest tragedies. Four of those
Andromache, Hecuba, Trojan Women
Diane Arnson Svarlien's translation of Euripides' Andromache, Hecuba, and Trojan Women exhibits the same scholarly and poetic standards that have won praise for her Alcestis, Medea, Hippolytus. Ruth Scodel's Introduction examines the cultural and ...
Medea and Other Plays
Euripides, along was Sophocles, and Aeschylus, is largely responsible for the rise of Greek tragedy. It was in the 5th Century BC, during the height of Greece's cultural bloom, that Euripides lived and worked. Of his roughly ninety-two plays, only seventeen tragedies survive. Both ridiculed and lauded during his life, Euripides now stands as an innovator of the Greek drama. Collected here are six of Euripides' tragedies in prose translation by Edward P. Coleridge: 'Medea', 'Hippolytus', 'Hecuba', 'Electra', 'Heracles', and 'Helen'. The first play in this collection, 'Medea', tells the horrific tale of a woman who seeks revenge on her husband by killing her children. 'Hippolytus' relates the tragedy of its titular character, son of Theseus, and his tragic fall at the hands of Phaedra. 'Hecuba' is the tale of a fallen Queen, the grief she feels for the death of her daughter, and the revenge she takes for the murder of her son. In 'Electra' we find the daughter of a slain king plotting
Trojanskorna
Grekerna har erövrat Troja och staden har bränts till aska; nu återstår att fördela bytet. I Trojanskorna är det kvinnorna som får röst, bland dem Hektors mor Hekabe, hans hustru Andromache, sierskan Kassandra och Helena. Euripides starka antikrig...
Ion
One of Euripides' late plays, Ion is a complex enactment of the changing relations between the human and divine orders and the way in which our understanding of the gods is mediated and re-visioned by myths. The story begins years before the play ...
Medea
THE ACCLAIMED TRANSLATION BY ROBIN ROBERTSON (FORWARD PRIZE, MAN BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLIST 2018) Euripides' Medea, the brutally powerful ancient Greek tragedy that reverberates down the centuries, has been brought to fresh and urgent life by one of o...
Bacchae and Other Plays
Through their sheer range, daring innovation, flawed but eloquent characters and intriguing plots, the plays of Euripides have shocked and stimulated audiences since the fifth century BC. Phoenician Women portrays the rival sons of King Oedipus an...
Iphigenia among the Taurians
I am Iphigenia, daughter of the daughter of Tyndareus My father killed me Few contemporary poets elicit such powerful responses from readers and critics as Anne Carson. The New York Times Book Review calls her work "personal, necessary, and i...
Hippolytos
In most versions of the Hippolytos myth, Phaidra is depicted as an utterly debauched character, a woman reduced to shamelessness by the power of Aphrodite. In Euripides' Hippolytos, however--informed by the playwright's moral and religious fascina...
Medea
Renowned poet and acclaimed translator Charles Martin faithfully captures Euripides's dramatic tone and style in this searing tale of revenge and sacrifice. The Medea of Euripides is one of the greatest of all Greek tragedies and arguably the one ...