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Euripides Plays 2 - Hecuba & The Women of Troy & Iphigenia at Aulis & Cyclops
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…
Euripides Plays 3 - Alkestis & Helen & Ion
The three plays in this volume straddle the borders between comedy and tragedy ... Alkestis is a moving "romance" with death and has parallels to Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale Helen, an alternative version…
Euripides Plays 4 - Elektra & Orestes & Iphigeneia in Tauris
This volume contains some of Euripides' most famous works ... Elektra which reverses previous notions of 'heroic' behaviour Orestes, in which almost all the characters are driven by base motives of cowardice…
Euripides Plays 5 - Andromache & Herakles’ Children & Herakles
Written at the height of the Peloponnesian War, the three plays in this volume highlight the trivial causes and dire consequences of war and the fate of the innocent In Andromache, Hektor’s widow…
Euripides Plays 6 - Hippolytos & Suppliants & Rhesos
A dramatist whose trademark was the unexpected, Euripides has constantly challenged and intrigued audiences, from Athens of the fifth century BC to the present. The three plays in this volume demonstrate…
Euripides’ Alcestis - A new version
“Alcestis” is the tale of a queen sacrificing herself so her husband may live. Ted Hughes’ classical translation was his final work, completed just before he died. As with his other works,…
Four Roman Comedies - The Haunted House & Casina or A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Wedding & The Eunuch & Brothers
The comedies of Plautus and Terence are all that survive to us of a great age of Roman comedy theatre Collected here are four important plays that offer a unique insight into everyday life in ancient Rome,…
Four Tragedies and Octavia - Thyestes & Phaedra & Trogan Women & Oedipus with Octavia
The tragedies of Seneca (c. 4 BC-65 AD) represent a curious branch of Latin literature. Taken from Greek drama, their legendary subjects are modelled on the manner of Euripides, yet Seneca all but ignores…
Hecuba
“Children, lead this old woman outside A slave like the rest of you, She once was your queen Troy has fallen to the Greeks, and Hecuba, its beloved queen, is widowed and enslaved She mourns her great…
Hercules
In this new translation Seneca’s poetic account of this classic story reveals the passion for rhetoric that was to have such a strong influence on Elizabethan drama and particularly on Marlowe and the…
