The Women of Troy (Taylor)

The Women of Troy (Taylor)

The Women of Troy (Taylor)

Euripides , Don Taylor

ISBN: 9781408103869

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The Women of Troy (Taylor)

The Women of Troy (Taylor)

Euripides , Don Taylor

ISBN: 9781408103869

Out of stock

Overview

An industrial port of a war-torn city. Women survivors wait to be shipped abroad. Officials come and go. A grandmother, once Queen, watches as her remaining family are taken from her one by one. The city burns around them.

Euripides' great anti-war tragedy is published in Don Taylor's translation to coincide with the National Theatre's production directed by Katie Mitchell in the Lyttelton auditorium.

This edition of the play features an introduction by the translator setting the play in its historical and dramaturgical context.

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Euripides

Euripides

Euripides (c. 480 – c. 406 BC) was a tragedian of classical Athens. Along with Aeschylus and Sophocles, he is one of the three ancient Greek tragedians whose full plays have survived. Of the more than 90 plays attributed to Euripides, 18 are extant in full: Alcestis, Medea, ...
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Don Taylor