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The Trojan Women and Other Plays
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Paperback Oxford Worlds Classics English
By (author) Euripides , Translated by James Morwood , Introduction by Edith Hall


Hecuba The Trojan Women Andromache

In the three great war plays contained in this volume Euripides subjects the sufferings of Troys survivors to a harrowing examination.

The horrific brutality which both women and children undergo evokes a response of unparalleled intensity in the playwright whom Aristotle called the most tragic of the poets. Yet the new battleground of the aftermath of war is one in which the women of Troy evince an overwhelming greatness of spirit. We weep for the aged Hecuba in her name play and in The Trojan Women, yet we respond with an at times appalled admiration to her resilience amid unrelieved suffering. Andromache, the
slave-concubine of her husbands killer, endures her existence in the victors country with a Stoic nobility. Of their time yet timeless, these plays insist on the victory of the female spirit amid the horrors visited on them by the gods and men during war.
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Product details

Format Paperback | 224 pages
Dimensions 129 x 198 x 11mm | 169g
Publication date 15 Jan 2009
Publisher Oxford University Press
Publication City/Country Oxford, United Kingdom
Language English
Edition Statement Reissue
Illustrations note 1 map
ISBN10 0199538816
ISBN13 9780199538812
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