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Medea
Medea
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Author: Euripides Adapted by: Liz Lochhead Publisher: Nick Hern Books Format: Softcover # of Pages: 80 Pub. Date: 2001 ISBN-10: 1854596020 ISBN-13: 9781854596024
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About the Book:
Euripides' classic Medea about the woman
who murders her own children in revenge for her husband's infidelity,
here given a distinctive Scots flavour by the poet and playwright Liz
Lochhead.
Winner of the Saltire Society's award for Scottish Book of the
Year.
What people say:
"This outstanding
work should firmly establish the Glasgow playwright as Scotland's
greatest living dramatist… the finest piece I have seen on the
Scottish stage this year." — Scotland on Sunday
"Liz Lochhead's
stunning new version of Medea is the kind of interpretation —
brave, visionary, risky — that blows a well-known text apart and
reassembles it in a completely new light… ancient but new, cosmic
yet agonisingly familiar." — The Scotsman
"Some of the most
exciting recent work on Greek drama in the English language."
— Sunday Times
About the Author:
Liz Lochhead Is a Scottish poet, playwright, performer and
broadcaster. Her stage plays include Thebans,
Quelques Fleurs, Good Things, the
enormously popular Perfect Days.
Euripides was one of the
three great tragedians of classical Athens, the other two being
Aeschylus and Sophocles. Some ancient scholars attributed ninety-five
plays to him, of these, eighteen or nineteen have survived complete.
Euripides is identified with theatrical innovations that have
profoundly influenced drama down to modern times, especially in the
representation of traditional, mythical heroes as ordinary people in
extraordinary circumstances. This new approach led him to pioneer
developments that later writers adapted to comedy, some of which are
characteristic of romance. |
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