{"product_id":"medea-37","title":"Medea","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Student Edition of Euripides' play, which accessibly unpacks Greek tragedy in its social context, issues of translation and adaptation, and performance approaches over the centuries.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEuripides' play \u003ci\u003eMedea \u003c\/i\u003ewas first produced in 431BC and continues to be produced globally to this day. Its power and timeless appeal for audiences rests in its portrait of a woman driven to murder the new wife of the man who abandoned her and to murder her own children. In more recent times, Medea's actions have been taken as a symbol of female power in an otherwise male-dominated society.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWill Shüler's commentary in this Student Edition looks at the violence of the play - both onstage and off; the original performance conditions; staging challenges, both then and now (including Medea's exit on a dragon); the notion of myth and how Greek tragedians were telling old stories to get new meanings; and how the play has evolved through translation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt considers a range of productions up to the present day, including the 2014 National Theatre production directed by Carrie Cracknell and starring Helen McCrory; Sophie Okonedo as Medea at the Soho Theatre, London, in 2023; and the 2000 Australian version, \u003ci\u003eBlack Medea\u003c\/i\u003e, which interpreted Medea as an indigenous woman brought to a city by her ambitious husband.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55503581839704,"sku":"9781350523722","price":17.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781350523722.jpg?v=1777986040","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/medea-37","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}