The original Heracles is shocking and strange. It begins in defeat and despair, soars into triumph, wavers on a razor's edge of dramatic uncertainty, then plunges into carnage and horror of the darkest kind.What is the greatest atrocity a man can commit? What do we mean by hero? Who can apportion blame to the workings of the human mind, and who has the power to forgive? These are questions thrown up by Euripides' Heracles and tackled unflinchingly by Simon Armitage in language that brings the play's contemporaneity sharply into focus, without diminishing its historical portent.
- ISBN13 9780571203338
- Publish Date 21 August 2000
- Publish Status Transferred
- Out of Print 20 August 2013
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Faber & Faber
- Format Paperback
- Pages 96
- Language English