Euripides

KKD 's concern about the treatment of women is further exemplified in her poem on the fetishization of Sylvia Plath 's suicide, Myths and Monsters. Dyson suggests that Plath's martyrdom occurred out of a...

She judged that EMD dealt honestly with human feelings, with the problems of the heart and the conscience. Nor was it, she insisted, absurd to compare her with Euripides or Shakespeare ; in an image...

Contemporary witnesses suggested that the couple had also worked together on Sophocles , Euripides , Plutarch , Epictetus , and Plato . According to recent critics, their sharing of their scholarly work without compromising the...

She reads Euripides ' Medea as a new woman, which is not a mark of approbation of the character. Medea the murderess of her children, she writes, is thoroughly fin de siecle, a woman...

This play weaves together seven contemporary stories with Euripides ' The Bacchae.

AC 's translations from Greek manage to incorporate some of the quirkiness of her original texts and titles. She titled If Not, Winter. Fragments of Sappho, 2002, from a poetic scrap that leaves the...

Here Barker retains the main lines of a story related by Homer , but from the mostly unexplored women's viewpoint (where she is given a lead by Euripides ' powerful play The Trojan Women)...

Back in the USA, when a projected vocation in politics died with Malcolm X , she returned to nightclub singing, then, after recuperating emotionally, to the dream of becoming a writer. Meanwhile she got a...

The play is a Senecan tragedy, written for the closet, not the public stage, though it is worth remembering that upper-class circles reading or performing such plays were connoisseurs of the highly dramatised masque...