Modern Medea - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Modern Medea write by Steven Weisenburger. This book was released on 1999-09. Modern Medea available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The widely acclaimed inquiry into the story that inspired Toni Morrison's "Beloved"--a nuanced portrait of the not-so-genteel Southern culture that perpetuated slavery and had such destructive effects on all who lived with it and in it. 25 illustrations.
The Early Modern Medea
The Early Modern Medea - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Early Modern Medea write by K. Heavey. This book was released on 2015-02-24. The Early Modern Medea available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the first book-length study of early modern English approaches to Medea, the classical witch and infanticide who exercised a powerful sway over literary and cultural imagination in the period 1558-1688. It encompasses poetry, prose and drama, and translation, tragedy, comedy and political writing.
Medea
Medea - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Medea write by Christa Wolf. This book was released on 1998-03-17. Medea available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Medea is among the most notorious women in the canon of Greek tragedy: a woman scorned who sacrifices her own children to her jealous rage. In her gripping new novel, Christa Wolf expands this myth, revealing a fiercely independent woman ensnared in a brutal political battle. Medea, driven by her conscience to leave her corrupt homeland, arrives in Corinth with her husband, the hero Jason. He is welcomed, but she is branded the outsider—and then she discovers the appalling secret behind the king's claim to power. Unwilling to ignore the horrifying truth about the state, she becomes a threat to the king and his ruthless advisors. Then abandoned by Jason and made a public scapegoat, she is reviled as a witch and a murderess. Long a sharp-eyed political observer, Christa Wolf transforms this ancient tale into a startlingly relevant commentary on our times. Possessed of the enduring truths so treasured in the classics, and yet with a thoroughly contemporary spin, her Medea is a stunningly perceptive and probingly honest work of fiction.
Black Medea
Black Medea - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Black Medea write by Kevin J. Wetmore. This book was released on 2013. Black Medea available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Euripides' Medea is one of the most popular Greek tragedies in the contemporary theatre. Numerous modern adaptations see the play as painting a picture of the struggle of the powerless under the powerful, of women against men, of foreigners versus natives. The play has been adapted into colonial and historical contexts to lend its powerful resonances to issues of current import. Black Medea is an anthology of six adaptations of the Euripidean tragedy by contemporary American playwrights that present Medea as a woman of color, combined with interviews, analytical essays and introductions which frame the original and adaptations. Placing six adaptations side by side and interviewing the playwrights in order to gain their insights into their work allows the reader to see how an ancient Greek tragedy has been used by contemporary American artists to frame and understand African American history. Of the six plays present in the volume, three have never before been published and one of the others has been out of print for almost thirty years. Thus the volume makes available to students, scholars and artists a significant body of dramatic work not currently available. Black Medea is an important book for scholars, students, artists and libraries in African American studies, classics, theatre and performance studies, women and gender Studies, adaptation theory and literature. Theatre companies, universities, community theatres, and other producing organizations will also be interested in the volume.
Medea
Medea - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Medea write by James J. Clauss. This book was released on 1997-01-12. Medea available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The figure of Medea has inspired artists in all fields throughout the centuries. This work examines the major representations of Medea in myth, art, and ancient and contemporary literature, as well as the philosophical, psychological and cultural questions these portrayals raise.
