Books by Euripides

The collection in this volume is intended for both performers and readers. It includes translations of "Hippolytos", "Suppliants" and "Rhesos".

This collection of three plays by Euripides includes: "Alkestis", a romance with parallels to Shakespeare's "The Winter's Tale"; "Helen", an alternative version of the myth of the Trojan War; and "Ion", a portrayal of childlessness and the abandoned child.

This useful edition includes Ferguson's introduction to the history of Greek theatre along with full notes and vocabulary.

Euripides takes the old myth of Orestes' and Elektra's revenge on their mother Klytemnestra for their father Agamemnon's murder and reinterprets it in realistic, human terms. This translation was first performed together with 'Orestes and Iphigeneia in Tauris' as 'Agamemnon's Children' at the Gate Theatre, London, in 1995.

This anthology includes four translations of the Athenian tragedian, Euripides. "Cyclops" is a satyr play, one of the oldest forms of drama, whilst "Hecuba", "Iphigenia at Aulis" and "The Women of Troy" centre on the Trojan War and the horrors of mental and physical contact.

The Athenian comedies not only lie at the root of Western drama, they also offer a unique insight into everyday life in Ancient Greece. This selection of plays includes the satirical comic fantasies of Aristophanes and Euripides' ribald satyr play, "Cyclops", the only survivng example of its genre.

A scholarly edition of Alcestis by Euripides. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.

Agamemnon's sacrifice of his daughter in order to ensure the good fortune of his forces in the Trojan War is, despite its heroic background, in many respects a domestic tragedy. Plays for Performance Series.

Features a story of the wronged wife who avenges herself upon her unfaithful husband by murdering their children is lodged securely in the popular imagination, a touchstone for politics, law, and psychoanalysis and the subject of constant retellings and reinterpretations.

English translation of Euripides'' tragedy in which Phaedra unsuccessfully fights her desire for her stepson Hippolytus, while he risks his life to keep her passion secret. Introduction on Euripides and ancient theater; interpretive essay on the play; bibliography.