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 her and to murder her own children. In more recent times, Medeas actions have been taken as a symbol of female power in an otherwise maledominated society.Will Shulers commentary in this Student Edition looks at the violence of the play both onstage and off the original performance conditions staging challenges, both then and now (including Medeas exit on a dragon) the notion of myth and how Greek tragedians were telling old stories to get new meanings and how the play has evolved through translation.It considers a range of productions up to the present day, including the 2014 National Theatre production directed by Carrie Cracknell and starring Helen McCrory Sophie Okonedo as Medea at the Soho Theatre, London, in 2023 and the 2000 Australian version, Black Medea, which interpreted Medea as an indigenous woman brought to a city by her ambitious husband.

Binding: Paperback;80 pages; Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC; Classification: CFP; Weight: 194 g; Dimensions: 129 x 198 x 6

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