Sophocles, Aeschylus and Euripides are often described as the
greatest tragedians of the ancient world. Of these three pivotal
founders of modern drama, Euripides is characterized as the
interloper and the innovator: the man who put tragic verse into the
mouths of slaves, women and the socially inferior in order to
address vital social issues such as sex, class and gender
relations. It is perhaps little wonder that his work should find
such resonance in the modern day. In this concise introduction,
Isabelle Torrance engages with the thematic, cultural and scholarly
difficulties that surround his plays to demonstrate why Euripides
remains a figure of perennial relevance. Addressing here issues of
social context, performance theory, fifth-century philosophy and
religion, textual criticism and reception, the author presents an
astute and attractively-written guide to the Euripidean corpus -
from the widely read and celebrated Medea to the lesser-known and
deeply ambiguous Alcestis.
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