Medea (Ancient Greek) (Bryn Mawr Commentaries, Greek) - Softcover

Euripides; Michele Kwintner

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0929524926 ISBN 13: 9780929524924

Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US), 1999

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Review

"Taplin's eminently readable version of this harrowing tragedy justifies his reputation as one of our foremost experts in dramatic criticism, whose pioneering efforts in illuminating ancient stagecraft remain indispensable today."--Froma Zeitlin, Princeton University

"Euripides's influential and provocative "Medea" continues to be read, performed, adapted, and reinterpreted in multiple contexts across the globe. Taplin's accessible and performable, yet vivid and poetic translation makes the play available to a modern audience while doing justice to both its complexities and its horrific power."--Helene P. Foley, Barnard College, Columbia University

"Taplin translates "Medea" into clear and contemporary English while reflecting well the different registers and tones that create the subtle texture of Greek tragedy. His version is eminently speakable, but also highly faithful to the original Greek, making it ideal for instructors and readers who want to study closely the specific metaphors and terms that carry the classic themes of this influential drama."--Donald J. Mastronarde, University of California, Berkeley

Taplin s eminently readable version of this harrowing tragedy justifies his reputation as one of our foremost experts in dramatic criticism, whose pioneering efforts in illuminating ancient stagecraft remain indispensable today. --Froma Zeitlin, Princeton University"

Euripides s influential and provocative "Medea" continues to be read, performed, adapted, and reinterpreted in multiple contexts across the globe. Taplin s accessible and performable, yet vivid and poetic translation makes the play available to a modern audience while doing justice to both its complexities and its horrific power. --Helene P. Foley, Barnard College, Columbia University"

Taplin translates "Medea" into clear and contemporary English while reflecting well the different registers and tones that create the subtle texture of Greek tragedy. His version is eminently speakable, but also highly faithful to the original Greek, making it ideal for instructors and readers who want to study closely the specific metaphors and terms that carry the classic themes of this influential drama. --Donald J. Mastronarde, University of California, Berkeley"

Taplin s volume offers the raw bones of a brilliant production. --Francesca Middleton "Times Literary Supplement ""

Euripides s influential and provocative Medea continues to be read, performed, adapted, and reinterpreted in multiple contexts across the globe. Taplin s accessible and performable, yet vivid and poetic translation makes the play available to a modern audience while doing justice to both its complexities and its horrific power. --Helene P. Foley, Barnard College, Columbia University"

Taplin translates Medea into clear and contemporary English while reflecting well the different registers and tones that create the subtle texture of Greek tragedy. His version is eminently speakable, but also highly faithful to the original Greek, making it ideal for instructors and readers who want to study closely the specific metaphors and terms that carry the classic themes of this influential drama. --Donald J. Mastronarde, University of California, Berkeley"

About the Author

Rachel Cusk was born in Canada in 1967 and spent much of her childhood in Los Angeles before finishing her education at St Mary's Convent, Cambridge. She read English at New College, Oxford, and has travelled extensively in Spain and Central America. She is the author of six novels. The first, Saving Agnes (1993), won the Whitbread First Novel Award. A Life's Work: On Becoming a Mother (2001) is a personal exploration of motherhood. In The Lucky Ones (2003) she uses a series of five narratives, loosely linked by the experience of parenthood, to write of life's transformations, of what separates us from those we love and what binds us to those we no longer understand. In 2003, Rachel Cusk was nominated by Granta magazine as one of 20 'Best of Young British Novelists'. Her latest novel is Outline (2014).

Edition details

• Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
• ISBN 10: 0929524926
• ISBN 13: 9780929524924
• Binding: Plastic Comb
• Number of pages: 152