Medea
$24.24
- Paperback
80 pages
- Release Date
21 January 2026
Summary
Medea: A Timeless Tragedy Unveiled
A Student Edition of Euripides’ play, which accessibly unpacks Greek tragedy in its social context, issues of translation and adaptation, and performance approaches over the centuries.
Euripides’ play Medea was first produced in 431BC and continues to be produced globally to this day. Its power and timeless appeal for audiences rests in its portrait of a woman driven to murder the new wife of the man who abandoned …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781350523722 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1350523720 |
| Series: | Student Editions |
| Author: | Euripides, J. Michael Walton, Will Shüler |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Imprint: | Methuen Drama |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 80 |
| Edition: | 2nd |
| Release Date: | 21 January 2026 |
| Weight: | 75g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 8mm |
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About The Author
Euripides
Euripides was born near Athens between 485 and 480 BC. His first play was presented in 455 BC and he wrote some 100 altogether of which nineteen survive – a greater number than those of Aeschylus and Sophocles combined – and which include Alkestis, Medea, Bacchae, Hippolytos, Ion and Iphigenia at Aulis. He died in 406 BC.
Will Shuler is Senior Lecturer in Drama and Theatre Studies at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. His research and teaching focus on performance pedagogies, teaching and performance-making with new technologies, as well as Queer theatre and Greek tragedy.
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