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

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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
Author	Euripides
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9780191606182
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	OUP Oxford
Manufacturer	OUP Oxford
NumberOfPages	224
PublicationDate	2001-09-20
Publisher	OUP Oxford
ReleaseDate	2001-09-20
Studio	OUP Oxford

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

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