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Amazon.com: Books: Hecuba (Greek Tragedy in New Translations) Hecuba has harsh words for Helen, as in the other play, but her son Paris receives his fair share of approbation as well. Hecuba was the wife of Priam, King of Troy, and the mother of Hector, Paris, Cassandra, and others. The result is a subtle and highly evocative translation of the unjustifiable sacrifice of Hecuba's daughter, Poyxena, and the consequent destruction of Hecuba's character. www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0195068742?v=glance

Hecuba RSC, a CurtainUp review The play begins with promise, as the Ghost of Polydorus (Matthew Douglas), Hecuba's last surviving son, tells us what is about to transpire. Hecuba (Vanessa Redgrave), once queen, is now captive and bereft of family, status and fortune, but faces even harsher suffering as two of her few remaining children die. Hecuba (Vanessa Redgrave) arrives onstage alone, but is soon joined by an enormous chorus of captive Trojan women (a dozen in all). www.curtainup.com /hecubaredgrave.html

The British Theatre Guide: RSC Hecuba Postponed Vanessa Redgrave said today; “I am very disappointed that I can’t play Hecuba at Stratford-upon-Avon, and that audiences who’ve made their bookings won’t be able to see the play there. The RSC are currently in the process of re-scheduling a programme of performances for the RST to replace Hecuba which will be published shortly. The London dates at the Albery theatre, which is to have several extra performances, will now run from 26 March – 7 May, with the national press night remaining unchanged on 7 April 2005. www.britishtheatreguide.info /news/RSChecuba.htm

HECUBA Online Resource Page Her sacrifice is one of the tragedies that her mother, Hecuba, must endure in the play. Hecuba is forced to deal with his death upon finding his body wash up on shore. The play follows her while she encounters the tragic deaths of her children and we see her actions as a result. web.ics.purdue.edu /~nsummers/characters.html

Hecuba - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Hecuba is seen as the leading character in the play, The Trojan Women (in Greek, Troiades) and Hecuba, both tragedies by the Greek playwright Euripides. Hecuba, though she was enslaved by the Achaeans when the city fell, eventually avenged her son. Hecuba (also Hekuba or Hekabe) was a Trojan queen in Greek mythology, daughter of Dymas. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hecuba

Guardian Unlimited Books Review Bitter tears In his preface to his version of Euripides' play, Werfel had written prophetically: "Tragedy and hapless Hecuba may now return; their time has come." In fact, Hecuba's time had already come at the beginning of the century. He saw inevitable parallels between the suffering of Hecuba and the women of Troy, and the suffering of the Boer women and children whose homesteads were burnt to the ground and who were interned by Lord Kitchener in concentration camps, a phrase coined at the beginning of a grim century to describe this British invention. We are encouraged to cheer Hecuba on to her revenge against Polymestor, who has murdered her son Polydorus for gold, though we are chilled by the action when it happens. books.guardian.co.uk /review/story/0,12084,1440240,00.html

'Hecuba's' blood lust - The Washington Times: Entertainment - May 28, 2005 Hecuba, by this time, is nearly out of her mind with grief, having in the first part of the play been forced to hand over her daughter Polyxena (Lydia Leonard) as a sacrifice to the dead war hero Achilles. Hecuba (Vanessa Redgrave) is still every inch a queen — aloof, remote — somehow holding herself apart from the other enslaved women even when she is rolling on the ground, seized and alone in her grief. The cruelties are almost sadistic, but what stay with you in "Hecuba" are the almost painterly descriptions of Polyxena's death and Hecuba's inventory of the pains she has endured. www.washtimes.com /entertainment/20050527-090425-2039r.htm

Hecuba.html Although the play rests on the premiss that Polydorus is the only surviving son, Hecuba's appeal to Helenus may echo versions of the myth in which he escaped Troy's fall. This ode, which includes many deliberate echoes of Homeric language and subject matter, continues to illustrate Hecuba's own agony, but indirectly, from the experience of others of the disaster she shared, and all is traced to a common cause. All three persons in their behavior and words illustrate differing conceptions of loyalty to family (Hecuba to her children, and Polyxena's loyalty to her high birth), to friends or fellows (Odysseus to Achilles), or to obligations incurred (Odysseus to Hecuba). www.hfac.uh.edu /mcl/classics/4375/Hecuba.html

Hecuba This tragedy celebrates the courage and bravery of Hecuba, who was Queen of Troy and is now, as the play begins, a prisoner of war. As the conquered Troy still burns, Hecuba, once-queen-now-slave, begs for her daughter Polyxena’s life as the girl is carted off by Greek soldiers to be sacrificed to the spirit of Achilles. Before the grieving Hecuba can organize a proper burial, her servant hobbles on with a cumbersome bit of bad news in the form of Polydorus’s water-logged corpse that just washed ashore. www.nytheatre.com /nytheatre/hecuba1866.htm

Hecuba But Hecuba's first great grief of the evening is not over Polydorus, whom she believes is still alive, but her anguish over the fate of her daughter Polixena (Heather Tom). When Hecuba enters, recovering from a nightmare she had about her children, the dramatic irony--we know so much more than she does-- is exquisite. But when Hecuba learns of the betrayal her son has met with at the hands of his guardian, Polymestor, she isn't content to let bad enough alone. theatrescene.net /ts/articles.nsf/OBP/E82DE4E0CDD2B4B985256F3900271D44

London theatre tickets play Hecuba on stage in London's West End Donmar Warehouse Theatre "...This production is gut-splattering stuff, and not only because of the anguish that Clare Higgins's Hecuba displays as a daughter is led off to ritual sacrifice and a son is discovered murdered. A savage indictment of the devastation of war, Hecuba is brought to life in a thrillingly visceral new version by Frank McGuinness. And that's as it should be, because Hecuba, like Medea, involves the only thing that can soothe that pain: a revenge that, as the queen executes it, is even uglier than the original wrong... www.albemarle-london.com /hecuba.html

HECUBA Euripides’ Hecuba here, Medea in her play, and Alcmena in Children of Heracles are members of an unholy sisterhood: if women are victimized by men, they can end up doing even worse than the men because they understand the lessons of the heart and apply them to their punishments. As events unfold, Hecuba endures the sacrifice of her other daughter, the noble Polyxena; learns of the murder of her one remaining son, Polydorus; and avenges Polydorus' slaying by killing his murderer's children. Hecuba, once queen of Troy, now a prisoner of war, is being transported back to Athens with other war booty, the women of Troy. www.sixthatpenn.com /hecuba.htm

DIDASKALIA: Ancient Theater Today Homer's Hecuba resembles the Hecuba of Euripides' play, because she 'wishes she could set her teeth in the middle of Achilles' liver and eat it because he killed her son Hector.' Hecuba acts like a bitch even there. Hecuba is freer than Agamemnon, because she is not a slave of the mob: as Hecuba says, 'Oh, there is no mortal who is free; either a person is a slave to wealth, or to luck; the city's mob or the laws force one into doing things against one's judgement' (864-7). Hecuba pleads with Agamemnon, shameless even to the point of exploiting his lust for her daughter Cassandra, whom he has forced to share his bed. didaskalia.open.ac.uk /issues/vol2no3/hecuba.html

Washington, DC Review: Hecuba is Good but Flawed Tragedy (BroadwayWorld.com) There are moments of striking visceral power and vision in the play, which is set in the aftermath of the Trojan War as Queen Hecuba (Redgrave), her daughter Polyxena (Lydia Leonard) and other women of Troy are carried off as war booty (quite literally) by a victorious Greek coalition of Athenians and Spartans. Hecuba's need for revenge forms the harrowing crux of the show, in which honor clashes with moral weakness, and vengeance with compassion. When Polyxena is killed, and Hecuba cries out, "I am destroyed!," it seems as if she were slightly more tortured than she would be at having an amphora vase broken. www.broadwayworld.com /viewcolumn.cfm?colid=3460

Euripides (c. 480-406 B.C.) Ten years earlier, he had written another stinging indictment of war in Hecuba which documents the cruelty of Greek warriors who enslave the Trojan queen and sacrifice her daughter at the tomb of Achilles. As the play begins, Troy has fallen, its men have been murdered, its shrines desecrated, and its women bound and enslaved. However, while Euripides was busy exposing the evils of his society, others were having a good laugh at his expense. www.imagi-nation.com /moonstruck/clsc4.htm

The Stage Online :: Reviews :: Hecuba Tony Harrison’s new version stresses that it is also a feminist play as we watch Vanessa Redgrave as Hecuba, once Queen of Troy, now “a childless old slave on the ground”, using every means at her disposal to save her children. Hecuba is a timeless piece, 24 centuries old, about parents and children. June Paris, chorus member and Hecuba’s servant, has great gravitas and a splendid voice and Lydia Leonard, vulnerable and pretty but strong and dignified, moves the audience as Hecuba’s condemned daughter, Polyxena. www.thestage.co.uk /reviews/review.php/7404

Lucius Annaeus Seneca (3 B.C.-65 A.D.) The Trojan Women is a contamination of the Hecuba and The Trojan Women of Euripides. There are many differences in detail, and changes of scene not customary in a Greek play. www.theatredatabase.com /ancient/seneca_001.html

Hecuba - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Hecuba is seen as the leading character in the play, The Trojan Women (in Greek, Troiades) and Hecuba, both tragedies by the Greek playwright Euripides. Hecuba, though she was enslaved by the Achaeans when the city fell, eventually avenged her son. Hecuba (also Hekuba or Hekabe) was a Trojan queen in Greek mythology, daughter of Dymas. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hecuba   (307 words)

Playbill News: Tim Piggot-Smith and Clare Higgins Set for Donmar's Hecuba Higgins received three major awards for her performance in Nicholas Wright's play about the artist Van Gogh, Vincent in Brixton, and Piggot-Smith appeared most recently in the acclaimed National Theatre revival of Mourning Becomes Electra. Luc Bondy's staging of Cruel and Tender at the Young Vic — based on Sophocles' Women of Trachis — was said by many observers to resonate strongly with the "war against terrorism." Katie Mitchell's much-admired updating of Iphigenia at Aulis, currently playing at the National, has also been said to resonate with contemporary international politics. The Donmar's Hecuba begins previews Sept. 9 with a press night on Sept. 14. www.playbill.com /news/article/87767.html   (418 words)

Brush Up Your Shakespeare Play with "an average of 5.2 atrocities per act" "What's Hecuba to him, __ to Hecuba" (Hamlet) members.aol.com /johnudarh/shakespeare/Shakespeare.html   (109 words)

'The Trojan Women' shines in timely look at war - The Mix Although Hecuba (Erica Tobolski), former Queen of Troy, is the focal point of the play, the first scene opens with the gods Poseidon and Pallas Athena debating the fate of the Greek fleet. But, unlike "The Iliad," which was already a classic when Euripides wrote "The Trojan Women," the Greeks in this play are the unseen villains, and the heroines are the women of Troy, dealing with the destruction of their city and the deaths of husbands, sons and brothers. After Poseidon's opening exposition, Hecuba and her ragged chorus of Trojan women are seen awaiting their fate at the hands of the Greek warriors, as Poseidon solemnly observes them. www.dailygamecock.com /news/2004/02/25/TheMix/the-Trojan.Women.Shines.In.Timely.Look.At.War-617223.shtml   (643 words)

Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2000.11.25 Gregory manages to make the scholarly arguments on thorny issues, such as the dating of the play and the interpretative difficulties inherent in Hecuba's act of violence against Polymestor and his sons, accessible to the neophyte without oversimplifying them and without stinting on scholarly references. The introduction is thorough and well-organized and includes a summary of the play and sections on the original context of the drama and its possible date, its literary antecedents and Euripidean innovations, problems of interpretation, and a note on the Greek text used. In the section on problems of interpretation, Gregory rightly observes, "the assessment of these violent acts [the murder of Polydorus, the sacrifice of Polyxena, and the blinding of Polymestor and murder of his young sons] constitutes the central interpretative problem of the play" (xxiii). ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/2000/2000-11-25.html   (822 words)

Untitled Document These horrors are seen through the eyes of Hecuba, the widow of Priam who has witnessed her husband's death, seen her daughter Cassandra given to Agamemnon, watched while her other daughter was dragged off to be sacrificed on Achilles' tomb, and discovered the murdered body of her son Polydorus. Hecuba, along with her Trojan companions, takes revenge by killing the children of her son's murderer, Polymestor and by putting out Polymestor's eyes. Hecuba, however, in The Trojan Women seems to preach submission. www.brown.edu /Departments/Classics/bcj/01-04.html   (2657 words)

Hamlet (1996 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The flashbacks and dream sequences even allow for celebrities appearing as characters that usually don't appear in the play at all, including Sir John Gielgud and Dame Judi Dench as Priam and Hecuba (mentioned in the monologue performed by the First Player on his arrival at Elsinore) and Ken Dodd as the aforementioned Yorick. Hamlet is a 1996 film version of William Shakespeare's classic play of the same name, adapted and directed by Kenneth Branagh, who also starred in the title role. The film is very visual; most of the play's many monologues and soliloquies are accompanied by silent flashbacks or dream sequences depicting the events being spoken of. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hamlet_(1996_movie)   (330 words)

DVD Savant Review: The Trojan Women The highest-born women are slated as wives for Greek royalty, or in the case of Hecuba, to be a lowly servant to a king. Hecuba is the one that has to carry the weight of her fallen city, as the Greeks set it ablaze and the captive women are marched to the waiting ships. Hecuba is the matriarch, and she witnesses what happens to three important Trojan women. www.dvdtalk.com /dvdsavant/s1330troj.html   (1119 words)

3345.RevG.Top9.html REVERSALS: women transformed from victims to agents; Hecuba: suppliant / demonic avenger; Human and beast in sacrifice; Polymestor and Hecuba exchange roles of victim and agent; Hecuba fixed in the form of a dog. Know how the following figure in the play by Euripides: www.hfac.uh.edu /mcl/classics/3345/3345.00.RevG.Top9.html   (176 words)

"Off-Off Online : Review Archives Her daughter, Polyxena (Heather Tom), is to be sacrificed in honor of Achilles, and before the play is over, she will discover that her son, Polydorus (Lucas Blondhelm), is dead as well. Hecuba’s chief action concerns her attempt to avenge her son’s murder, which took place at the hands of a trusted friend, King Polymestor (Christopher McCann). At the end of Hecuba, when the mutilated Polymestor predicts that King Agamemnon (Mike Genovese) will die at home and Hecuba herself will turn into a dog, the audience shivers. www.offoffonline.com /archives.php?id=204   (599 words)

Hecuba theatre reviews Albery theatre London UK The play follows Hecuba as she tries to save her daughter and avenge her son. As Polymestor he is a roaring old ham, which gets very tedious as Polymestor has most of the lines in the last part of the play, making it drag even further. On top of this horror, Hecuba discovers that her youngest son Polydorus, who she evacuated from the royal household for his safety, has been murdered by his host Polymestor. www.ba-education.demon.co.uk /for/entertainment/atl/hecuba.html   (941 words)

Cassandra Hecuba, in Seneca's play Troades, also compares herself to Cassandra: Cassandra was the daughter of Priam and Hecuba, and therefore was a princess of Troy. Cassandra, daughter of Priam and Hecuba, in the temple of Apollo, exhausted from practicing, is said to have fallen asleep; whom, when Apollo wished to embrace her, she did not afford the opportunity of her body. www.stanford.edu /~plomio/cassandra.html   (1144 words)

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