Ten Plays

Ten Plays

432 pages
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Published: 6 Nov 2008
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ISBN: 9780553213638

Format: Paperback

Language: English

Publisher: Bantam Classics

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The first playwright of democracy, Euripides wrote with enduring insight and biting satire about social and political problems of Athenian life.  In contrast to his contemporaries, he brought an exciting--and, to the Greeks, a stunning--realism to the "pure and noble form" of tragedy.  For the first time in history, heroes and heroines on the stage were not idealized:  as Sophocles himself said, Euripides shows people not as they ought to be, but as they actually are.