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Title: The Bacchae and Other Plays
Condition: New
EAN: 9780140447262
ISBN: 9780140447262
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Format: Paperback
Type: Paperback
Release Date: 26/01/2006
Language: English
Item Height: 198mm
Item Length: 129mm
Item Width: 24mm
Item Weight: 315g
ISBN-10: 0140447261
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Genre: Music Dance & Theatre
Author: Euripides
Release Year: 2006
Description: Through their sheer range, daring innovation, flawed but eloquent characters and intriguing plots, the plays of Euripides have shocked and stimulated audiences since the fifth century BC. Phoenician Women portrays the rival sons of King Oedipus and their mother's doomed attempts at reconciliation, while Orestes shows a son ravaged with guilt after the vengeful murder of his mother. In the Bacchae, a king mistreats a newcomer to his land, little knowing that he is the god Dionysus disguised as a mortal, while in Iphigenia at Aulis, the Greek leaders take the horrific decision to sacrifice a princess to gain favour from the gods in their mission to Troy. Finally, the Rhesus depicts a world of espionage between the warring Greek and Trojan camps.

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