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Medea Brendan Kennelly

Medea By Brendan Kennelly

Medea by Brendan Kennelly

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Medea: a new version by Brendan Kennelly

Brendan Kennelly has turned this classic tale of betrayal and vengeance into a text for our times. The sorceress Medea marries Jason after helping him and the Argonauts steal the Golden Fleece. When Jason deserts her, she punishes her faithless husband by murdering their two sons, after killing his young bride and her father with a robe of fire. Medea carries out her bloody revenge in the name of Justice, but in the spirit of rage. The rage of many modern women, including Irishwomen, electrifies this highly charged and deeply personal play. First staged at the Dublin Theatre Festival, Kennelly's chilling new version of Euripides' great tragedy has delighted and devastated audiences in Ireland, Britain and America. This edition is now out of print but is reprinted in Kennelly's Greek plays trilogy, When Then Is Now.

Medea Reviews

Medea's revenge upon Jason takes place on "one sweet, vicious, vengeful, devastating day", and the vigour of Brendan Kennelly's translation can be gauged from those mouthwatering words. He has a superb feel for the language * The Times *
Accessible, immediate, urgent...his language makes you feel the force of Medea's passions as closely and vividly as Euripides' audiences would have done. * The Guardian *
He has created a modern Medea with classical touches who epitomises contemporary woman as much as a mythical heroine. * Evening Press (Dublin) *

About Brendan Kennelly

Brendan Kennelly is one of Ireland's most distinguished and best loved poets, as well as a renowned teacher and cultural commentator. Born in 1936 in Ballylongford, Co. Kerry, he was Professor of Modern Literature at Trinity College, Dublin for over 30 years, and retired from teaching in 2005. He now lives in Listowel, Co. Kerry. He has published more than 30 books of poetry, including Familiar Strangers: New & Selected Poems 1960-2004 (2004), which includes the whole of his book-length poem The Man Made of Rain (1998). He is best-known for two controversial poetry books, Cromwell, published in Ireland in 1983 and in Britain by Bloodaxe in 1987, and his epic poem The Book of Judas (1991), which topped the Irish bestsellers list: a shorter version was published by Bloodaxe in 2002 as The Little Book of Judas. His third epic, Poetry My Arse (1995), did much to outdo these in notoriety. All these remain available separately from Bloodaxe, along with his more recent titles: Glimpses (2001), Martial Art (2003), Now (2006), Reservoir Voices (2009), The Essential Brendan Kennelly: Selected Poems, edited by Terence Brown and Michael Longley, with audio CD (2011), and Guff (2013). His Journey into Joy: Selected Prose, edited by Ake Persson, was published by Bloodaxe in 1994, along with Dark Fathers into Light, a critical anthology on his work edited by Richard Pine. John McDonagh's critical study Brendan Kennelly: A Host of Ghosts was published in The Liffey Press's Contemporary Irish Writers series in 2004.

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GOR002412895
9781852241896
1852241896
Medea: a new version by Brendan Kennelly
Brendan Kennelly
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
1997-08-01
80
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Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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