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The nurse, overhearing Medea's grief, fears what she might do to herself or her children. Creon, in anticipation of Medea's wrath, arrives and reveals his plans to send her into exile. Crouching at Creon's feet, Medea begs him in the name of her children to allow her one day's delay. At this Creon is moved and grants to her one more day in Corinth.
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.
Medea then continued her revenge, murdering two of her children herself and refusing to allow Jason to hold the bodies. Afterward, she left Corinth and flew to Athens in a golden chariot driven by dragons sent by her grandfather, Helios, god of the sun. Statuette of Medea and a nurse protecting the child, Archaeological Museum of Dion, Greece.
Bash: Latterday Plays is a collection of three dark one-act plays written by Neil LaBute.Each play is an exploration of the complexities of evil in everyday life. Two of the works, "iphigenia in orem" and "medea redux" have direct Greek influence, specifically Iphigenia in Aulis and Medea by Euripides.
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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The Medea of Euripides is a 1954 Austraslian radio play by Ray Mathew. It was his adaptation of Medea by Euripides . The play was written for Sydney John Kay's Mercury Theatre radio division. [ 1 ]
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