Tells the story of Greek tragedy’s most intrepid heroine.

Charged with female agency, Medea is a powerful story of betrayal, desperation, and horrifying revenge. The classic Greek tragedy is brought to life in this lyrical translation by Augusta Webster.

Presenting a new approach to Euripides' plays, this book explores the playwright's ancient tragedies in relation to quotation culture. Treating extant works and lost works side-by-side, Matthew Wright presents a…

Few contemporary poets elicit such powerful responses from readers and critics as the author. The New York Times Book Review calls her work personal, necessary, and important, while Publishers Weekly…

Features Oedipus Rex and Electra by Sophocles (translated by George Young), Medea and Bacchae by Euripides (translated by Henry Hart Milman), and Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus (translated by George Thomson)…

In these three war plays, Euripides subjects the sufferings of Troy’s survivors to a harrowing examination. Yet the battleground of the aftermath of war is one in which the women…

Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfectionssuch as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part…