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Euripides: Three Plays
By Euripides
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Translated by Philip Vellacott. Here are three of Euripides’ finest tragedies offered in vivid, modern translations.
Euripides (484-407 B.C.) is seen in the three plays in this volume as the sceptical questioner of his age. Alcestis, an early play in which a queen agrees to die to save her husband’s life, is cast in a tragic vein, although it contains passages of satire and even comedy, whilst Iphigenia in Tauris, with its apparently happy ending, melodramtically reunites the ill-fated children of Agamemnon. Hippolytus, however, is pure tragedy β the fatal impact of Phaedra’s unreasoning passion for her chaste stepson. Philip Vellacott’s translations, in a blend of prose and verse, are designed for the modern stage.
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