Eurpides and this play are studied on English, drama and classics coursesAs well as the complete text of the plays itself, the volumecontains a chronology of the playwright's life and work, anintroduction giving the background to the play; a discussion of thevarious interpretations; and notes on individual words and phrases.J. Michael Walton's, Professor of Drama atUniversity of Hull, classic translation with expert commentary andnotes by: Walton and Dr. Marianne McDonald: Professor of Theatre& Classics at University of California
Euripides was born near Athens between 485 and 480 BC and grew upduring the years of Athenian recovery after the Persian Wars. His firstplay was presented in 455 BC and he wrote some hundred altogether. Hislater plays are marked by a sense of disillusion at the futility ofhuman aspiration which amounts on occasion to a philosophy ofabsurdism. A year or two before his death he left Athens to live at thecourt of the king of Macedon, dying there in 406 BC. Nineteen of hisplays survive, including Hippolytos, The Bacchae, Iphigeneia at Aulis,Hecuba, Medea, and The Trojan Women.
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