Euripides: Plays Two

by Don Taylor, Euripides, J. Michael Walton, et al.

Published in the new Methuen Classical Dramatists series

Euripides' searching, poetic voice probes the waste and suffering of war in these plays which are set wake of the Trojan defeat to reflect the playwright's changing attitude to the real war between Athens and Sparta in his own day - 4th century BC. Hecuba is a play of ghosts and shadowy death; The Women of Troy is a searing indictment of the aftermath of defeat; Iphigenia at Aulis...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0413164209
• ISBN13: 9780413164209
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Berg 3pl
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.1" x 8.1"