Medea and Other Plays Magnetic Letters presenting and reviving the work

presenting and reviving the work of illustrator Wyndham Payne (1884-1974)

These stories are famed for their 'trick endings' or 'twists in the tail': repeatedly the plot twirls adroitly

moving gracefully between the tennis match for the ages and the dramatic events leading Germany

The breathing exercises can be done almost anywhere

And deciding whose side you're on is a matter of life and death

Medea and Other Plays Magnetic Letters presenting and reviving the workAlcestis Medea The Children of Heracles Hippolytus 'One of the best prose translations of Euripides I have seen' Robert Fagles This selection of plays shows Euripides transforming the titanic figures of Greek myths into recognizable, fallible human beings. Medea, in which a spurned woman takes revenge upon her lover by killing her children, is one of the most shocking of all the Greek tragedies. Medea is a towering figure who demonstrates Euripides'