Hecuba (play)

Hecuba (play)

Infobox_Play | name = Hecuba


caption = Hecuba Blinding Polymnestor by Giuseppe Maria Crespi
writer = Euripides
chorus = Captive Trojan Women
characters = Ghost of Polydorus
Hecuba
Polyxena
Odysseus
Talthybius
Maid
Agamemnon
Polymestor, "and his children"
setting = Greek camp upon the shore of the Thracian Chersonese

Hecuba ( _el. Εκάβη / "Hēkabē") is a tragedy by Euripides written c. 424 BC. The play is meant to take place after the Trojan War, but before the Greeks have departed Troy. It depicts Hecuba's grief over the loss of a daughter, and the revenge she takes over the loss of a son. Taking place near the same time is The Trojan Women, another play by Euripides. This play has also been mentioned in the second act of Hamlet by Shakespeare.

Translations

*Edward P. Coleridge, 1891 - prose: [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=Eur.+Hec.+1 full text]
*Arthur S. Way, 1912 - verse
*J. T. Sheppard, 1927 - verse
*Hugh O. Meredith, 1937 - verse
*William Arrowsmith, 1958 - verse
*Philip Vellacott, 1963 - verse
*Timberlake Wertenbaker, 1995 - verse
*George Theodoridis, 2007 - full text prose: [http://bacchicstage.com/]


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