Euripides Plays 3 - Alkestis & Helen & Ion

Euripides trans J Michael Walton & Kenneth McLeish… Price: $18.95

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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 of the tragic portrayal of the Trojan War, shows Helen "relocated in a delightful comedy" - as an innocent victim of her own beauty, hidden in Egypt by the gods while her image has been abducted by Paris

In Ion a father who thought he was childless discovers his son, and a son who thought he was motherless finds his mother