Description: Excerpt from The "Medea" Of Euripides and the "Medea" Of GrillparzerGrillparzer was the heir of all the ages between him and Euripides. He not only looked back upon the owering time of Greek literature, but he knew Calderon, Lope de Vega, Shakespeare, Goethe, Schiller, and the writers of the romantic school. Old things had passed away, and all things had become new. There was a new heaven and a new earth in dramatic literature.The German Medea' contains about twenty-four hundred verses, or about a thousand more than the Medea of the Greek poet. It is much longer than any play of ES chylus, Sophocles, or Euripides. This is in accord with modern ideas, which allow, if they do not require, a fuller and freer treatment of dramatic material.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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