Book description
Medea has been betrayed. Her husband Jason has left her for a younger
woman. He has forgotten all the promises he made and is even prepared to
abandon their two sons. But Medea is not a woman to accept such
disrespect passively. Strong-willed and fiercely intelligent, she turns
her formidable energies to working out the greatest, and most
horrifying, revenge possible...
Euripides is thought to have lived between 485 and 406 BC. He is
considered to be one of the three great dramatists of Ancient Greece,
alongside Aeschylus and Sophocles. He is particularly admired by
modern audiences and readers for his characterization and astute and
balanced depiction of human behaviour. Medea is his most famous work.
Robin Robertson is from the north-east coast of Scotland. He is the
author of three collections of poetry: A Painted Field (1997),
winner of the 1997 Forward Poetry Prize (Best First Collection), the
Aldeburgh Poetry Festival Prize and the Saltire Society Scottish First
Book of the Year Award; Slow Air (2002); and Swithering
(2006). He is also the editor of Mortification: Writers'
Stories of their Public Shame (2003). In 2004, he was named by
the Poetry Book Society as one of the 'Next Generation' poets, and
received the E. M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and
Letters. He lives and works in London. Robin Robertson's third poetry
collection, Swithering (2006), was shortlisted for the 2005 T.
S. Eliot Prize and won the 2006 Forward Poetry Prize (Best Poetry
Collection of the Year).
