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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]
Medea (Johnson play) The Medea of Euripides (radio play) Médée; Médée (Anouilh) P. Pecong (play) This page was last edited on 4 February 2023, at 23:00 (UTC ...
Euripides (c. 480–406 BC): Alcestis (438 BC) Medea (431 BC) The Heracleidae (Herakles Children) (c. 429 BC) Hippolytus (428 BC) Electra (c. 420 BC) Sisyphos (415 BC) Andromache (428–24 BC) The Suppliants (422 BC) Hecuba (424 BC) Herakles (421–416 BC) The Trojan Women (Troades) (415 BC) Ion (414–412 BC) Iphigenia in Tauris (414–412 BC ...
Medea is a 1969 Italian film written and directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini, based on the ancient myth of Medea.The film stars opera singer Maria Callas in her only film role and is largely a faithful portrayal of the myth of Jason and the Argonauts and the events of Euripides' play Medea.
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.
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."
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 ...