{"product_id":"medea-9780413770301","title":"Medea","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA student edition of this challenging and popular tragedy with notes and commentary.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe most controversial of the Greek tragedians, Euripedes is also\u003cbr\u003ethe most modern in his sympathies, a dramatist who handles the complex\u003cbr\u003eemotions of his characters with extraordinary depth and insight. \u003cbr\u003eWronged and discarded by her husband, Medea gradually reveals\u003cbr\u003eher revenge in its increasing horror, while the audience is led to\u003cbr\u003eunderstand the incomprehensible; a woman who murders her own children.\u003cbr\u003eSince its first production (431 BC), the play has exerted an\u003cbr\u003eirresistible attraction for actors and directors alike. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTranslated by J.Michael Walton.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eEuripides was born near Athens between 485 and 480 BC and grew up\u003cbr\u003eduring the years of Athenian recovery after the Persian Wars. His first\u003cbr\u003eplay was presented in 455 BC and he wrote some hundred altogether. His\u003cbr\u003elater plays are marked by a sense of disillusion at the futility of\u003cbr\u003ehuman aspiration which amounts on occasion to a philosophy of\u003cbr\u003eabsurdism. A year or two before his death he left Athens to live at the\u003cbr\u003ecourt of the king of Macedon, dying there in 406 BC. Nineteen of his\u003cbr\u003eplays survive, including Hippolytos, The Bacchae, Iphigeneia at Aulis, \u003cbr\u003eHecuba, Medea, and The Trojan Women.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50648839749906,"sku":"9780413770301","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_107cf8d6-4e61-40dd-8633-7e5cf27b424d.jpg?v=1751363095","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/medea-9780413770301","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}