Word: hecuba
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...only the misery of the vanquished. For him the living drama lay in the tears of the conquered women and it is from them that he has named his play. Around them he has built up the action of the piece, setting forth the personalities of four heroic women: Hecuba, queen of Troy; Cassandra, her frenzied daughter; Andromache, wife of Hector; and lastly, the false Helen. Amidi the droning chants of the woeful choruses we see the suffering of these four. The scene in which Andromache played with spirit and sweetness by Miss Edith Wynne Matthison, parts from her little...
...most striking features of the plays is is that, though twenty-three centries old, they are essentially modern in their character--a fact brought out by "Trojan Women" which has been called the strongest plea against war ever written. It depicts the effect of war upon four women, Hecuba, Andromache, Helen, and Cassandra, who have had their homes destroyed and are being led away into captivity. The whole play is aimed as a protest against the conditions of strife in Greece due to the Peloponnesian War. It shows that Euripides and the other thinkers of his time could...