Published in the new Methuen Classical Dramatists series
A dramatist whose trademark was the unexpected, Euripides has
constantly challenged and intrigued audiences, from Athens of the
fifth century BC to the present. The three plays in this volume
demonstrate Euripides' versatility. Hippolytos (which was turned
into Phedre by Racine), deals with sexual passion, incest and
abstinence; Suppliants (a version of the Antigone story) sets the
play in Eleusis and dramatises the moment when the mothers of the
dead sons of Oedipus beg Theseus to go to Thebes and demand their
sons' bodies for burial. In Rhesos, all the confusion of sentry
duty, the intrigue of spies and intruders, disguises and deceptions
are crammed into a single night when the fortunes of war turn
against the Trojans by a mixture of devious behaviour and sheer bad
luck.
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