Medea

(Plays For Performance). Medea'S history is that she saved Jason by destroying her own family, and by making the daughters of Pelias kill their own family. Now, married to Jason, she finds that he hasremarried and abandoned their children. In a desperate and powerful act, she kills her own children. While behaving like a barbarian, she uses the rhetoric and ethical constructs of the civilized Greek world to justify her horrifying revenge. 59p.