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Medea
Euripides
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Description for Medea
paperback. Medea's husband Jason has left her for a younger woman. He has forgotten all the promises he made and is even prepared to abandon their two sons. But Medea is not a woman to accept such disrespect passively. Strong-willed and fiercely intelligent, she turns her formidable energies to working out the greatest, and a horrifying, revenge possible. Translator(s): Robertson, Robin. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: DB; DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 7. Weight in Grams: 90.
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 our best modern poets.
Medea has been betrayed. Her husband Jason has left her for a younger woman. He has forgotten all the promises he made and is even prepared to abandon their two sons. But Medea is not a woman to accept such disrespect passively. Strong-willed and fiercely intelligent, she turns her formidable energies to working out the greatest, and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
112
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099511779
SKU
9780099511779
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99-2
About Euripides
Euripides is thought to have lived between 485 and 406 BC. He is considered to be one of the three great dramatists of Ancient Greece, alongside Aeschylus and Sophocles. He is particularly admired by modern audiences and readers for his characterization and astute and balanced depiction of human behaviour. Medea is his most famous work. Robin Robertson is from ... Read more
Reviews for Medea
The purpose of translation is to set a play free. This is just what Robin Robertson does. In his lucid, free-running verse, Medea's power is released into the world, fresh and appalling, in words that seem spoken for the first time.
Anne Enright The greatest works demand constant re-translation to meet the changing culture of the age, and Robin ... Read more
Anne Enright The greatest works demand constant re-translation to meet the changing culture of the age, and Robin ... Read more