The Trojan Women and Other Plays (Oxford World's Classics)

The Trojan Women and Other Plays (Oxford World's Classics)

Hecuba The Trojan Women Andromache

In the three great war plays contained in this volume Euripides subjects the sufferings of Troy's 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 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.
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Country USA
Manufacturer OUP Oxford
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2001-09-20
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	OUP Oxford
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2001-09-20
Format	Kindle eBook

The Trojan Women and Other Plays (Oxford World's Classics)

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