Medea

Euripides, Diane Arnson Svarlien, Robin Mitchell-Boyask

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Hackett Publishing
01 April 2008

Literature, Poetry & Criticism; Plays & playscripts

Series: Hackett Classics

Mitchell-Boyask's Introduction gives the reader a lively and accessible overview of Euripides' life, the circumstances of the original performances, and critical debate on the three plays. Footnotes to the translations provide students with useful background without over-burdening the text. The translations themselves are lively, vigorous, colorful, and direct, while remaining very close to the Greek. Arnson Svarlien has also taken care with the meter. Iambic trimeter, the 'spoken' meter of Greek, has been represented with iambic pentameter in English; but even in the lyric passages, whose meters do not translate into English, responsion within odes has been preserved. Yet all of this attention to such details of meter and accuracy sacrifices nothing in clarity or pace.

By: Euripides
Introduction and notes by: Robin Mitchell-Boyask
Translated by: Diane Arnson Svarlien
Imprint: Hackett Publishing
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 532mm
Weight: 114g
ISBN: 9780872209237
ISBN 10: 0872209237
Series: Hackett Classics
Pages: 71
Publication Date: 01 April 2008
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for Medea

"""The excellent Introduction by Robin Mitchell-Boyask displays an admirable command of up-to-date scholarship and judiciously leaves controversial matters open to one's own interpretation. Arnson Svarlien's verse translation has both elegance and power -- it reads well, not just to the eye, but (happily for the director and actors) also to the ear."" -- Ian Storey, Department of Classics, Trent University"