Medea, whose magical powers helped Jason and the Argonauts take the Golden Fleece, remains one the strongest female characters ever to appear on stage. In the play she kills her own children--a desperate and powerful act. Nicholas Rudall's deft translation for contemporary audiences provides new insight into this classic story.
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The language of Medea is full of vacillation. (Michael Kuckwara The Birmingham News )
The language of Medea is full of vacillation. (Michael Kuckwara The Birmingham News )
Rudall features a sharp, vivid precision edge...immediate and accessible. (Chicago Sun-Times )
Accessible, but not prosaic, vivid but not overstated, poetic but not inflated...Rudall has done an excellent job. (Chicago Tribune )
A spare, contemporary translation. (Julie York Coppens South Bend Tribune )
Rudall's text...admirably recasts Euripides' play in modern American English.... Rudall avoids all the annoying, dusty Victorianisms of 19th century translators. (Chicago Reader )
The language of Medea is full of vacillation. (Michael Kuckwara The Birmingham News )
Rudall features a sharp, vivid precision edge...immediate and accessible. (Chicago Sun-Times )
Accessible, but not prosaic, vivid but not overstated, poetic but not inflated...Rudall has done an excellent job. (Chicago Tribune )
A spare, contemporary translation. (Julie York Coppens South Bend Tribune )
Rudall's text...admirably recasts Euripides' play in modern American English.... Rudall avoids all the annoying, dusty Victorianisms of 19th century translators. (Chicago Reader )
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Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Greek --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Original Language: Greek --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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I have two Medea from two translators.Philip Vellacott and Nicholas Rudall. I compared them and I like Dr. Rudall's translation because it is easy to read for someone who is a high school student or ESL student. Moreover, the language that Dr. Rudall uses is modern and it "gives individual characters specific speech patters (as Euripides surely did). Medea is quick, deeply ironic, occasionally morbidly funny, and capable of passions ranging from seething anger to weeping regret. Jason is a politician. He speaks well and lies--perhaps believing that he speaks the truth." Moreover, I'd like to have a thin and pocket book to carry so I chose to keep this copy.
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