Author: EuripidesPublisher:
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Languages : en
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Scenes from Euripides' Medea
Author: EuripidesMedea
Author: EuripidesPublisher: Prestwick House Inc
ISBN: 1580493467
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
To make Medea more accessible for the modern reader, our Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Edition includes a glossary of the more difficult words, as well as convenient sidebar notes to enlighten the reader on aspects that may be confusing or overlooked. In doing this, it is our intention that the reader may more fully enjoy the beauty of the verse, the wisdom of the insights, and the impact of the drama.Witch, barbarian, foreigner, or a woman wronged and committed to the most horrific kind of justice, Medea is a heroine who makes her audience shudder. Euripides shows us an astonishingly strong female protagonist, whom some readers have identified as the first feminist in Western literature. Seeing where her strength leads her, though, we must wonder if she was intended to be portrayed a model or as a warning.Because the three other plays that were traditionally performed with Medea have been lost, it is difficult to say whether Euripides? Athenian audience was as upset by the play as modern readers are. It won only third place at the biggest festival in the city, indicating that ancient audiences also found it controversial. With its still-relevant examination of marriage, love, and revenge, and its explicit scenes of mental and emotional agony, Medea continues to demand our attention.
Medea in Performance 1500-2000
Author: Oliver TaplinPublisher: Routledge
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Papers drawn from an interdisciplinary colloquium, hosted at Somerville, College by the University of Oxford's Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama in August 1998.
The Medea of Euripides
Author: EuripidesHecuba
Author: EuripidesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Greek drama (Tragedy)
Languages : en
Pages : 80
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Scenes from Euripides
Author: EuripidesThe Medea Of Euripides
Author: Gilbert MurrayScenes from Euripides. Rugby Edition, by A. Sidgwick ... Medea
Author: EuripidesAgamemnon
Author: AeschylusPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781537484303
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
The sense of difficulty, and indeed of awe, with which a scholar approaches the task of translating the Agamemnon depends directly on its greatness as poetry. It is in part a matter of diction. The language of Aeschylus is an extraordinary thing, the syntax stiff and simple, the vocabulary obscure, unexpected, and steeped in splendour. Its peculiarities cannot be disregarded, or the translation will be false in character. Yet not Milton himself could produce in English the same great music, and a translator who should strive ambitiously to represent the complex effect of the original would clog his own powers of expression and strain his instrument to breaking. But, apart from the diction in this narrower sense, there is a quality of atmosphere surrounding the Agamemnon which seems almost to defy reproduction in another setting, because it depends in large measure on the position of the play in the historical development of Greek literature.
Portraits of Medea in Portugal during the 20th and 21st Centuries
Author: Andrés Pociña PérezPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004383395
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
The theme of Medea in Portuguese literature has mainly given rise to the writing of new plays on the subject. The central episode in the Portuguese rewritings in the last two centuries is the one that takes place in Corinth, i.e., the break between Medea and Jason, on the one hand, and Medea’s killing of their children in retaliation, on the other. Besides the complex play of feelings that provides this episode with very real human emotions, gender was a key issue in determining the interest that this story elicited in a society in search of social renovation, after profound political transformations – during the transition between dictatorship and democracy which happened in 1974 – that generated instability and established a requirement to find alternative rules of social intercourse in the path towards a new Portugal.