Euripides Plays: 2: Cyclops; Hecuba; Iphigenia in Aulis; Trojan Women - Paperback
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Euripides' searching, poetic voice probes the waste and suffering of war in these plays which are set wake of the Trojan defeat to reflect the playwright's changing attitude to the real war between Athens and Sparta in his own day - 4th century BC. Hecuba is a play of ghosts and shadowy death; The Women of Troy is a searing indictment of the aftermath of defeat; Iphigenia at Aulis shows a human tragedy at the heart of the mechanics of war; and Cyclops is a satyr play which offers a comic antidote to the tragedies.With an introduction by J. Michael Walton
Euripides Plays: 2: Cyclops; Hecuba; Iphigenia in Aulis; Trojan Women - Paperback
$31.00
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by Euripides (Author), J. Michael Walton (Editor), Don Taylor (Translator)
Published in the new Methuen Classical Dramatists series
Euripides' searching, poetic voice probes the waste and suffering of war in these plays which are set wake of the Trojan defeat to reflect the playwright's changing attitude to the real war between Athens and Sparta in his own day - 4th century BC. Hecuba is a play of ghosts and shadowy death; The Women of Troy is a searing indictment of the aftermath of defeat; Iphigenia at Aulis shows a human tragedy at the heart of the mechanics of war; and Cyclops is a satyr play which offers a comic antidote to the tragedies.With an introduction by J. Michael Walton
Number of Pages: 240
Dimensions: 0.6 x 8.06 x 5.13 IN
Publication Date: October 11, 2006
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