Euripides Plays

Published in the new Methuen Classical Dramatists series<br/><br/><br/><p><br/>The three plays in this volume straddle the borders between comedy and tragedy. Alkestis is a moving romance with death; it 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 (Observer) - 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.<p><br/></p><br/>