The ancient Greeks weren't terribly high-concept in their theatrical ambitions for tragedy, and that simplicity of form is what contributes to their continuing mythic power. A character experiences a ...

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Medea, in all its forms, is a divorce story intimately concerned with the ways past relationships haunt present ones, how this haunting is infected by patriarchy and its anxieties, and how that same ...

Scorned and seething since 431 B.C.E., Medea has raged across the centuries as an empathetic emblem of the human consequence of paternalistic betrayal — by a man for whom a Golden Fleece was just not ...