Medea and Other Plays centers on Euripides’ art of making the socially powerless terrifyingly articulate. Medea begins after Jason has abandoned his foreign wife and children to marry the Corinthian princess.
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Euripides
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“Of all things upon earth that bleed and grow, A herb most bruised is woman”
“Sooner would I stand Three times to face their battles, shield in hand, Than bear one child”
“But the world's Wise are not wise, Claiming more than mortal may”
“There may be many shapes of mystery, And many things God makes to be, Past hope or fear”
The Bacchae and Other Plays presents Euripides at his most dangerous: gods are real, but that does not make them gentle. The Bacchae begins when Dionysus arrives at Thebes in disguise to punish the royal house for denying his divinity and slandering his mother Semele.