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Euripides: Medea is the first title in the new series, Cambridge Translations from Greek Drama.

Drama Classics edition

Euripides' "Cyclops" is the only complete surviving example of a Satyric drama

THE BACCHAE was not only the last and greatest of Euripides' tragedies, it was very close to the last of the great Greek tragedies. The story of the play is in part about this cultural dissolution in Athens. It's also about the theatre itself, and how a sane society needs strong, intelligent theatre to survive. THE BACCHAE makes a perfect first entry in the new Applause series of classic dramas, because it argues so passionately and beautifull...

Contains a new and previously unpublished translation of Medea by J. Michael Walton.

Agamemnon's sacrifice of his daughter in order to ensure the good fortune of his forces in the Trojan War is, despite its heroic background, in many respects a domestic tragedy. Plays for Performance Series.

Euripides' romantic melodrama of the reunion in Tauris of Iphigenia with the brother she thought was dead abounds in situations of danger and of touching reminiscence. Plays for Performance Series.

Euripides, wrote Aristotle, 'is the most intensely tragic of all the poets'. In his questioning attitude to traditional pieties, disconcerting shifts of sympathy, disturbingly eloquent evil characters and acute insight into destructive passion, he is also the most strikingly modern of ancient authors.Written in the period from 426 to 415 BC, during the fierce struggle for supremacy between Athens and Sparta, these five plays are haunted by the...

Kaum eine Frauengestalt des antiken Mythos ist bis heute so lebendig wie die der Medea. Der Stoff von der Frau, die in ihrem Rachebedürfnis zum Äußersten geht, ist seit der Antike zahllose Male aufgegriffen und bearbeitet worden. Am Anfang dieser unvergleichlichen Rezeptionskette steht Euripides Drama, das im Jahre 431 v. Chr. erstmals aufgeführt wurde und für uns die älteste erhaltene Fassung der Geschichte darstellt - ein unausweichliches St...