Euripides Plays: v.3: Alkestis, Helen, Ion

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* Euripides

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Classical Dramatists

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Published in the new "Methuen Classical Dramatists" series, the three plays in this volume straddle the borders between comedy and tragedy. "Alkestis" is a moving "romance" with death; it has parallels to Shakespeare's "The Winter's Tale". "Helen", an alternative version of the tragic portrayal of the Trojan War, shows Helen "relocated in a delightful comedy" - "Observer" - as an innocent victim of her own beauty, hidden in Egypt by the gods while her image has been abducted by Paris. "In Ion", a father who thought he was childless discovers his son, and a son who thought he was motherless finds his mother.

Author Biography:

Euripides was born near Athens between 485 and 480 BC. His first play was presented in 455 BC and he wrote some hundred 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.

Release date Australia

October 23rd, 1997

Author

* Euripides

Audiences

General (US: Trade)
Professional & Vocational
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Pages

208

Series

Classical Dramatists

Dimensions

127x202x13

ISBN-13

9780413716200

Product ID

2360668

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