Heracles and Other Plays

Heracles and Other Plays

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Euripides
Robin A. Waterfield (Translator)
Edith Hall (Introduction by)
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Overview

Euripides wrote about timeless themes, of friendship and enmity, hope and despair, duty and betrayal. The first three plays in this volume are imbued with an atmosphere of violence, while the fourth, Cyclops, is our only surviving example of a genuine satyr play, with all the crude and slapstick humor that characterized the genre. Alcestis shows various reactions to death with pathos and grim humor while the blood-soaked Heracles portrays deep emotional pain and undeserved suffering. Children of Heracles deals with the effects of war on refugees and the consequences of sheltering them.

Details

  • SKU:  9780192832597
  • SKU10:  019283259X
  • Series:  Oxford World's Classics (Paperback)
  • Publisher:  Oxford University Press
  • Date Published:  Jul 2003
  • Pages:  224

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