

Suitable for the general reader as well as for students and performers. Strong-willed and fiercely intelligent, she turns her formidable energies to working out the greatest, and most horrifying, revenge possible. But Medea is not a woman to accept such disrespect passively. He has forgotten all the promises he made and is even prepared to abandon their two sons. Her husband Jason has left her for a younger woman. THE ACCLAIMED TRANSLATION BY ROBIN ROBERTSON (FORWARD PRIZE, MAN BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLIST 2018)Įuripides' Medea, the brutally powerful ancient Greek tragedy that reverberates down the centuries, has been brought to fresh and urgent life by one of our best modern poets.

A bold new translation of this shockingly modern classic work by Forward Prize-winning poet, Robin Robertson
