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Medea is a fabula crepidata (Roman tragedy with Greek subject) of about 1027 lines of verse written by Seneca the Younger. It is generally considered to be the strongest of his earlier plays. [ 1 ] It was written around 50 CE.
With the text's rediscovery in 1st-century Rome (the play was adapted by the tragedians Ennius, Lucius Accius, Ovid, Seneca the Younger and Hosidius Geta, among others), again in 16th-century Europe, and the development of modern literary criticism, Medea has provoked multifarious reactions.
Medea in a fresco from Herculaneum. Medea is a direct descendant of the sun god Helios (son of the Titan Hyperion) through her father King Aeëtes of Colchis.According to Hesiod (Theogony 956–962), Helios and the Oceanid Perseis produced two children, Circe and Aeëtes. [5]
Medea is an opera in three acts composed by Giovanni Pacini to a libretto by Benedetto Castiglia. It premiered on 28 November 1843 at the Teatro Carolino in Palermo, conducted by the composer with Geltrude Bortolotti in the title role. The libretto is based on the plays Medea by Euripides and Médée by Pierre Corneille. [1]
Medea is a 1730 play by the British writer Charles Johnson.It is about Medea from Greek mythology and based on the play Medea by Euripides. [2]The original Drury Lane cast included Mary Porter as Medea, Robert Wilks as Jason, William Mills as Aegeus, Christiana Horton as Ethra, John Mills as Creon, Sarah Thurmond as Creusa, Thomas Hallam as Eumelus and John Corey as Therapion.
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"Motherhood and Murder: Cherubini's Medea" on npr.org; Tsippi Fleischer: Luigi Cherubini's Médée (1797): A Study of its Musical and Dramatic Style (including historical sources). UMI Company Microform 9817686. Ann Arbor, MI (USA), 1998. Full PDF text available for download from the author's website
By 2006 the play had received several full productions. [2] The Hungry Woman: A Mexican Medea has had few productions between the first 1995 production directed by Tony Kelly and the 2006 production at the Leeds Theater at Brown University. [6] The Brown University Production of The Hungry Woman took place at the Leeds Theater in April 2006 ...