Download or read book Hecuba written by Euripides and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2014-07-31 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first great war between the east and west is over. Hecuba, once queen of Troy, is widowed and enslaved by the conquering Greeks. When her captors demand that her daughter be sacrificed in honour of the great warrior Achilles, and she finds her only surviving son murdered, her mourning turns to a hunger for retribution. One of the most powerful dramas ever written, Hecuba is a vital examination of the psychology of the powerful and the powerless in time of conflict. Euripides' Hecuba, in this translation by Tony Harrison, premiered at the Albery Theatre in March 2005 as part of the RSC's London season.
Download or read book Euripides Hecuba written by Helene P. Foley and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hecuba written by Euripides and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition of the classical Greek tragedy, which sees the unjustifiable sacrifice of Hecuba's daughter, Polyxena, and the consequent destruction of Hecuba herself, has been translated with special emphasis placed on the rhetoric and the work's tonal textures.
Download or read book Andromache Hecuba Trojan Women written by Euripides and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diane Arnson Svarlien's translation of Euripides' Andromache, Hecuba, and Trojan Women exhibits the same scholarly and poetic standards that have won praise for her Alcestis, Medea, Hippolytus . Ruth Scodel's Introduction examines the cultural and political context in which Euripides wrote, and provides analysis of the themes, structure, and characters of the plays included. Her notes offer expert guidance to readers encountering these works for the first time.
