Thyestes
by Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Caryl Churchill, Seneca

Name: Thyestes
Brand: Lucius Annaeus Seneca
SKU: 9781854596505
Rating: 3.75 (4 reviews)

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Synopsis

Thyestes; Atreus, Agamemnon's father, takes revenge on his brother Thyestes by murdering Thyestes' sons and serving their flesh up for their father's dinner.

Press Reviews

"In Caryl Churchill's spartan, poetic translation ... this template tragedy is awesome."
— Observer

"Skillfully points up all the play's influence on Elizabethan drama, while investing it with some welcome modernity of utterance.... Has its rewards for the student of Seneca, of Churchill and of Eng. lit."
— Financial Times

"Prompts thoughts ... of the ethics of revenge, of the latest reports from Rwanda, of what has happened in its time on all five continents.... The style conveys the sadism and anguish of the main characters all the more forcefully for being bare and direct."
— Sunday Telegraph