Medea, Actors' Shakespeare Project
The heroine of Euripides' Medea is half martyr, and half murderess - and not just any murderess, but a killer of her own children. This makes her - special, shall we say. But these days we like to dwell on the first of her personae, while only half-acknowledging the second. Which may be understandable given our current theatrical politics - we have trouble gazing directly upon women capable of filicide, a…
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