Euripides Plays

Published in the new Methuen Classical Dramatists series.<br/><br/>Always controversial Euripides' plays are now celebrated for the subtlety of their characterisation and their unorthodox dramatic style. This volume contains three of his finest tragedies: Medea the abandoned wife who murders her own children; The Phoenician Women a further twist in the story of Oedipus and Jocasta; and Bacchae a macabre and complex play about the power and irrationality of Dionysos. These translations are by David Thompson and J. Michael Walton.<p>With an introduction by J. Michael Walton<br/></p><br/>