<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Medea, whose magical powers helped Jason and the Argonauts take the Golden Fleece, remains one of the strongest female characters ever to appear on stage. In the play she kills her own children. Plays for Performance Series.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Medea, whose magical powers helped Jason and the Argonauts take the Golden Fleece, remains one the strongest female characters ever to appear on stage. In the play she kills her own children-a desperate and powerful act. Nicholas Rudall's deft translation for contemporary audiences provides new insight into this classic story.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>A spare, contemporary translation.--Julie York Coppens "South Bend Tribune"<br><br>Accessible, but not prosaic, vivid but not overstated, poetic but not inflated...Rudall has done an excellent job.-- "Chicago Tribune"<br><br>Rudall features a sharp, vivid precision edge...immediate and accessible.-- "Chicago Sun-Times"<br><br>Rudall's text...admirably recasts Euripides' play in modern American English.... Rudall avoids all the annoying, dusty Victorianisms of 19th century translators.-- "Chicago Reader"<br><br>The language of Medea is full of vacillation.--Michael Kuckwara "The Birmingham News"<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>The Plays for Performance series is edited by Nicholas Rudall, former artistic director of the Court Theatre at the University of Chicago where he is professor of classics, and Bernard Sahlins, founder and director of the Second City. They both live in Chicago, Illinois.
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