Euripides Plays: 3: Alkestis; Helen; Ion

By Euripides

Published in the new Methuen Classical Dramatists series

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B007IGUQA8
• ISBN13: 9780413716200
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: Methuen Drama
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.4" x 7.0"