Medea

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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.

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The language of Medea is full of vacillation. -- Michael Kuckwara * The Birmingham News *
Rudall features a sharp, vivid precision edge...immediate and accessible. * Chicago Sun-Times *
Accessible, but not prosaic, vivid but not overstated, poetic but not inflated...Rudall has done an excellent job. * Chicago Tribune *
A spare, contemporary translation. -- Julie York Coppens * South Bend Tribune *
Rudall's text...admirably recasts Euripides' play in modern American English.... Rudall avoids all the annoying, dusty Victorianisms of 19th century translators. * Chicago Reader *

Author Bio

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.