THE WORLD OF TRAGEDY
  • Syllabus
  • Unit One
    • Aristotle's Poetics
    • Ancient Greek Theater
    • Oedipus the King
    • Antigone
    • Medea
    • Playing the Other
    • The Birth of Tragedy
    • The Mourning Voice
    • Lars von Trier's Medea
    • Cherrie Moraga's The Hungry Woman
    • A Theory of Adaptation
  • Unit Two
    • Early Modern Theater
    • Richard III
    • THEATER EXCURSION
    • Original Practices
    • Women of Richard III
    • Hamlet
    • Notorious Identity
    • Shakespeare's Ghost Writers/King in the Car Park
    • Mock Hamlet Exam
    • Hamlet 2
  • ASSIGNMENTS
    • Student Website Assignments
    • MEDEA ESSAY SAMPLES
    • THEATER REVIEW GUIDELINES
    • THEATER REVIEW MODEL
    • FINAL PAPER HAMLET
    • TIPS FOR FINAL PAPER
  • Resources
    • WHAT WE LEARNED
    • Glossary
    • Further Reading
    • Professor Walsh Recommends
    • Places and Projects
    • The World of Tragedy
    • FINAL PAPERS
  • TECH
    • A History of Hamlet
    • Paul
    • Estella
    • Estella
    • Estella
  • FINAL PAPERS
    • Hamlet: Jedi Knight
    • The Lion King
    • Game of Thrones
    • House of Cards
    • Shakespeare's Hamlet
    • Sopranos
    • Tragic Women
    • Waiting for Godot
    • Films of Tim Burton
    • Miley Cyrus
"Medea in Euripides’s play comes closest to the demand for an equivalence of that feminine self to the male…A woman who insists on the binding nature of a compact she made on her own with a man, a woman who defends her right to honor and self-esteem in terms suspiciously resembling those of the male heroic code, and finally a woman who would reverse the cultural flow in founding a new genre of poetry that celebrates the exploits of women rather than those of men...."

Froma Zeitlin, Playing the Other: Gender and Society in Classical Greek Literature, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995 (346).


Summary
• Jason has abandoned Medea and the two children, remarrying with 
Glauce, the daughter of Creon

• Creon banishes Medea and her children from the city of Corinth

• Medea is granted one day before her exile, or she shall be put to death

• Jason explains his intention to remarry is for everyone’s good

• Jason offers tokens to help and Medea refuses

• Argues, king of Athens, passes the city of Corinth and offers protection to 
Medea in his city in exchange for the curing of sterility

• Medea schemes to revenge which includes killing her two children to 
make Jason suffer

• Medea sends the nurse to fetch Jason 

• Medea pretends to confess her earlier behaviors, and Jason forgives her

• Medea sends “gifts” in her children’s hands to Glauce, which is meant to 
convince Glauce to persuade her father to let the children stay in Corinth

• The poisoned coronet and dress sent by Medea causes Glauce’s death

• Creon embracing his daughter’s corpse leads to his death

• A messenger recounts the details of Glauce and Creon’s deaths

• Medea kills her children regardless of the protest of the 
chorus

• Jason arrives at the house, and is left cursing and bemoans his fate 

• Medea flees in a chariot drawn by dragons with the dead bodies of her 
children


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