Medea has been abandoned by her husb&. Jason, for whom she has sacrificed so much, has left her & their two children for a younger woman. His new bride is the daughter of the most powerful man in Corinth & Medea & the boys are to be forced to leave the state & become refugees. But Medea is not a woman to accept such disrespect passively. Strong-willed & fiercely intelligent, she turns her formidable energies to working out the greatest, & most horrifying, revenge possible on those who have injured her.
Euripides' devastating tragedy is shockingly modern in the sharp psychological exploration of the characters & the gripping interactions between them. Award-winning poet, Robin Robertson, has captured both the pace & vitality of the drama & the power & beauty of the poetry & has reinvigorated this masterpiece for the twenty-first century.