The poems "The Cat" and "Scottsboro, Too, Is Worth its Song" appear in a collection otherwise devoted to CounteeCullen's abridged translation of this play.
One character in this play dramatically delays a piece of news by reporting it with a syntactically convoluted sentence beginning"I heard someone saying, though I was pretending not to listen, as I was passing the game tables where the oldest oldmen sit." The poems "The Cat" and "Scottsboro, Too, Is Worth its Song" appear in a collection otherwise devoted to CounteeCullen's abridged translation of this play. One character in this play gives a soliloquy lambasting the "men from long ago" forindulging in banquets and music to escape the sorrow of life. A man who receives the prophecy to "not loose the wineskin'spendant neck" is offered fertility-boosting drugs by the title character in exchange for safe haven in Athens. This play beginswith an Attendant interrupting the Nurse as she dreads the coming events, and ends with the title character leaving the stagein a dragon-pulled chariot. After successfully delaying banishment from the court of Corinth for one day, its title charactersends out two poisoned golden robes as giftfts, and rushes ostage to kill her sons. For 10 points, name this Euripides tragedyabout Jason's serial killer ex-wife.
One character in this play dramatically delays a piece of news by reporting it with a syntactically convoluted sentence beginning"I heard someone saying, though I was pretending not to listen, as I was passing the game tables where the oldest oldmen sit.
Medea