Alcestis - Euripides

Alcestis

By Euripides

  • Release Date: 2015-01-02
  • Genre: Theater
3.5 Score: 3.5 (From 5 Ratings)

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The Alcestis would hardly confirm its author’s right to be acclaimed “the most tragic of the poets.” It is doubtful whether one can call it a tragedy at all. Yet it remains one of the most characteristic and delightful of Euripidean dramas, as well as, by modern standards, the most easily actable. And I notice that many judges who display nothing but a fierce satisfaction in sending other plays of that author to the block or the treadmill, show a certain human weakness in sentencing the gentle daughter of Pelias.

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