In The Iphigenia Plays, award-winning poet and classicist Rachel Hadas offers luminous translations, in contemporary verse, of Euripedes’s fateful story of Agamemnon’s daughter.
As in her Tony Award–winning Metamorphoses, Mary Zimmerman transforms Greek mythology—here the story of Jason and the Argonauts—into a mesmerizing piece of theater. Encountering an array of daunting challenges in their “first voyage of the world,” Jason and his crew illustrate the essence of all such journeys to follow—their unpredictability, their inspiring and overwhelming breadth of emotion, their lessons in the inevitability of failure and loss.
