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The Trojan Women and Other Plays
Contributor(s): Euripides (Author), Morwood, James (Author), Hall, Edith (Introduction by)
ISBN: 0199538816     ISBN-13: 9780199538812
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
OUR PRICE:   $10.76  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: January 2009
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BISAC Categories:
- Drama | Ancient & Classical
- Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - General
- Drama | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Dewey: 822.01
Series: Oxford World's Classics (Paperback)
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.2" W x 8.2" (0.35 lbs) 224 pages
 
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Publisher Description:
This volume of Euripides' plays offers new translations of the three great war plays Trojan Women, Hecuba, and Andromache, in which the sufferings of Troy's survivors are harrowingly depicted. With unparalleled intensity, Euripides--whom Aristotle called the most tragic of poets--describes the
horrific brutality that both women and children undergo during war. Yet, in the war's aftermath, this brutality is challenged and a new battleground is revealed where the women of Troy evince an overwhelming greatness of spirit.
We weep for the aged Hecuba in her name play and in Trojan Women, while at the same time we admire her resilience amid unrelieved suffering. Andromache, the slave-concubine of her husband's killer, endures her existence in the victor's 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.

About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert
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