Looking at Medea: Essays and a translation of Euripides’ tragedy

Cover page\nHalftitle page\nSeries page\nTitle page\nCopyright page\nDedication\nContents\nList of Illustrations\nAcknowledgements\nList of Contributors\nForeword\nIntroduction – Medea in Context\n	Greek Drama – a brief history and some technicalities\n	Athens in 431 BC\n	Medea, a tragedy for its time\n	The historical aftermath of Medea\n1 Murder in the Family – Medea and Others\n	Medea and the world of myth\n	Medea paidoktonos (child-killer)\n	Medea and the world of fifth-century Athens\n	Conclusion: Medea in Athens and beyond\n2 Medea Before and (a little) After Euripides\n3 Otherness and Exile: Euripides’ Production of 431 BC\n	Notes\n4 Staging Medea\n	Crying inside\n	Creating chaos\n	Enter the woman from Colchis\n	Poisoned gifts\n	Dying inside\n	Serpents to Athens\n	Conclusion\n	Notes\n5 The Nurse’s Tale*\n	The involvement of the nurse\n	The lost boys\n	Sexual passion\n	Class and realism\n	The function of the nurse\n	Notes\n6 Re-evaluating Jason\n	Notes\n7 The Final Scene\n8 ‘It Wouldn’t Happen Here . . . Could It?’ – Chorus and Collusion in Euripides’ Medea\n9 Medea’s Vengeance\n	Notes\n10 Medea: Feminism or Misogyny?\n	Marriage\n	Medea and the ‘ordinary woman’\n	Women and song: ‘compensation for the female race’\n	The same old song\n	Note on further reading\n11 Divine and Human in Euripides’ Medea\n	Notes\n12 Black Medeas\nEuripides’ Medea\n	Dramatis Personae\n		Prologue\n		Parodos\n		Episode 1\n		Stasimon 1\n		Episode 2\n		Stasimon 2\n		Episode 3\n		Stasimon 3\n		Episode 4\n		Stasimon 4\n		Episode 5\n		Anapaestic Interlude\n		Episode 6\n		Stasimon 5\n		Exodos\nBibliography\nIndex