Medea
$27.82
- Paperback
80 pages
- Release Date
4 February 2010
Summary
Betrayed by a husband she sacrificed everything for, Medea unleashes a horrific vengeance on her enemies, by murdering her own children.
Featuring one of the most powerful female roles in the history of drama, Euripides’ tragedy Medea is reworked by poet Tom Paulin into lithe and sinewy modern English that conveys the shocking story - and our conflicted loyalties as spectators to the tragedy - more strongly than ever.
This version of Medea was first staged by …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781848420946 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1848420943 |
| Author: | Euripides, Tom Paulin |
| Publisher: | Nick Hern Books |
| Imprint: | Nick Hern Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 80 |
| Release Date: | 4 February 2010 |
| Weight: | 96g |
| Dimensions: | 7mm x 129mm x 198mm |
| Series: | NHB Classic Plays |
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Critics Review
‘Tom Paulin’s new version is robust, flecked with poetry but still down to earth’
‘Tom Paulin’s new version is robust, flecked with poetry but still down to earth’
* Guardian *‘Paulin’s script probes into the deeper and darker reasoning behind Medea’s ostracism, the otherness that has both attracted and repelled her intimates’
* Stage *Euripides
Euripides (c. 480-406 BC) was, along with Aeschylus and Sophocles, one of the three great tragedians of classical Athens.
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