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Euripides' Medea: A New Translation
Diane J. Rayor
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Description for Euripides' Medea: A New Translation
Paperback. Euripides' Medea comes alive in this new translation that will be useful for both academic study and stage production. Num Pages: 127 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 151 x 227 x 8. Weight in Grams: 234.
Euripides' Medea comes alive in this new translation that will be useful for both academic study and stage production. Diane J. Rayor's accurate yet accessible translation reflects the play's inherent theatricality and vibrant poetry. The book includes an analytical introduction and comprehensive notes, and an essay on directing Medea by stage director Karen Libman. The play begins after Medea, a princess in her own land, has sacrificed everything for Jason: she helped him in his quest for the Golden Fleece, eloped with him to Greece, and bore him sons. When Jason breaks his oath to her and betrays her by ... Read more
Euripides' Medea comes alive in this new translation that will be useful for both academic study and stage production. Diane J. Rayor's accurate yet accessible translation reflects the play's inherent theatricality and vibrant poetry. The book includes an analytical introduction and comprehensive notes, and an essay on directing Medea by stage director Karen Libman. The play begins after Medea, a princess in her own land, has sacrificed everything for Jason: she helped him in his quest for the Golden Fleece, eloped with him to Greece, and bore him sons. When Jason breaks his oath to her and betrays her by ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Number of pages
127
Condition
New
Number of Pages
134
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107652217
SKU
V9781107652217
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About Diane J. Rayor
Diane J. Rayor is Professor of Classics at Grand Valley State University, Michigan. She has written four translations of ancient Greek poetry and drama: Sophocles' Antigone: A New Translation (Cambridge, 2011), Homeric Hymns: A Translation, with Introduction and Notes (2004), Sappho's Lyre: Archaic Lyric and Women Poets of Ancient Greece (1991) and Callimachus with Stanley Lombardo (1988). She is co-editor ... Read more
Reviews for Euripides' Medea: A New Translation
'Diane Rayor's new translation of Medea is accurate and playable. Performers, directors, and students will find the help they need in the well-informed notes, and audiences and readers will enjoy the beauties of the poetry, which is lean, unpretentious, and powerfully direct.' John Gibert, University of Colorado 'Diane Rayor's Medea, forged in and for live performance, energetically renders Euripides for ... Read more