Plays: Vol 3 (Methuen Classical Greek Dramatists): 3: Alkestis; Helen; Ion: v.3 (Classical Dramatists)

by Euripides (Author), KennethMcLeish (Introduction), J.MichaelWalton (Editor)

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  Mass Market Paperback
  1997

  $3.25

  Published in the new Methuen Classical Dramatists series The three plays in this volume straddle the borders between comedy and tragedy. Alkestis is a moving romance with death; it has parallels to Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale. Helen, an alternative version of the tragic portrayal of the Trojan War, shows Helen relocated in a delightful comedy (Observer) - as an innocent victim of her own beauty, hidden in Egypt by the gods while her image has been abducted by Paris. In Ion, a father who thought he was childless discovers his son, and a son who thought he was motherless finds his mother.

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  Mass Market Paperback
  1997

  $22.06

  Published in the new Methuen Classical Dramatists series The three plays in this volume straddle the borders between comedy and tragedy. Alkestis is a moving romance with death; it has parallels to Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale. Helen, an alternative version of the tragic portrayal of the Trojan War, shows Helen relocated in a delightful comedy (Observer) - as an innocent victim of her own beauty, hidden in Egypt by the gods while her image has been abducted by Paris. In Ion, a father who thought he was childless discovers his son, and a son who thought he was motherless finds his mother.