Euripides was born near Athens between 485 and 480 BC. His first play was presented in 455 BC and he wrote some 100 altogether of which nineteen survive – a greater number than those of Aeschylus and Sophocles combined – and which include Alkestis, Medea, Bacchae, Hippolytos, Ion and Iphigenia at Aulis. He died in 406 BC.Will Shüler is Senior Lecturer in Drama and Theatre Studies at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. His research and teaching focus on performance pedagogies, teaching and performance-making with new technologies, as well as Queer theatre and Greek tragedy.

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• ChronologyContexts (ritual; myth as storytelling; multiple plays performed at one time; audience and performer experience including collective spectacle; didactic)Themes (gender; motherhood; feminism, including contemporary perspectives; political power; family) Play in Performance (Aristotle's Poetics; dramatic structure; space of a Greek tragic theatre; acoustics; violence onstage and offstage; theatre design) Text, Transmission, and Translation (How did this text survive until now? What are approaches to translation? What does this translation emphasise? What are the potentials for “translating” the play from page to stage?)Play in performance (how various playwrights and theatre-makers have adapted the material including the 2014 NT production directed by Carrie Cracknell; the 2023 production at the Soho Theatre, London; the 2000 production in Australia, Black Medea; and Cherrie Moraga's 1995 adaptation The Hungry Woman, which was a queer re-telling of the play.)PLAY TEXTNotes