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Euripides' play has been explored and interpreted by playwrights across the centuries and the world in a variety of ways, offering political, psychoanalytical, feminist, and many other original readings of Medea, Jason and the core themes of the play. [1] Medea, along with three other plays, [a] earned Euripides third prize in the City Dionysia.
Medea About to Murder Her Children by Eugène Ferdinand Victor Delacroix (1862) In Euripides's play Medea, she is a woman scorned, rejected by her husband Jason and revenge seeking. Deborah Boedeker writes about different images and symbolism Euripides used in his play to evoke responses from his original Athenian audience. [36]
Médée is a French language opéra-comique by Luigi Cherubini.The libretto by François-Benoît Hoffman (Nicolas Étienne Framéry) was based on Euripides' tragedy of Medea and Pierre Corneille's play Médée. [1]
The play was written for Sydney John Kay's Mercury Theatre radio division. [1] Mathews said he "kept, in my very free version, strictly to the form of Euripides’ play, and I tried by adding and subtracting to bring out for a contemporary audience exactly what I thought was the play's content... , I tried to make the play mean for us what I ...
While Euripides' Medea shares similarities with Seneca’s version, they are also different in significant ways. Seneca's Medea was written after Euripides', and arguably his heroine shows a dramatic awareness of having to grow into her (traditional) role. [7] Seneca opens his play with Medea herself expressing her hatred of Jason and Creon.
Both come on the heels of Luis Quintero (taking a leaf from Lin-Manuel Miranda?) offering a hip-hop version of Euripides’s Medea, the first great drama about what can happen when an arrogant ...
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Euripides has been hailed as a great lyric poet. [66] In Medea, for example, he composed for his city, Athens, "the noblest of her songs of praise". [67] His lyrical skills are not just confined to individual poems: "A play of Euripides is a musical whole...one song echoes motifs from the preceding song, while introducing new ones."