Medea Re-Imagined: A Wounded Call to Justice

Anastasia Pantazopoulou

doi:10.32473/pcgss.v1i.130515

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Anastasia Pantazopoulou University of Florida

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https://doi.org/10.32473/pcgss.v1i.130515

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Medea, Injustice, Crime, Stage

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This article discusses the theatrical re-imagining of Euripides’ Medea by Peter McGarry. In McGarry’s play, Medea is punished for her crime and sentenced to suffer the torment and consequences of her murder by repeatedly performing on stage her tragedy throughout time and space. McGarry’s Medea places a spotlight on an enduring facet of human experience, namely, the problem of injustice in its many aspects, comparing Medea’s “just cause” for revenge and killing her children with the wars that modern societies wage in the name of justice, vengeance, or even Gods, which always involve the sacrifice of children and young people to the greater good.

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Anastasia Pantazopoulou, University of Florida

Anastasia Pantazopoulou is a PhD candidate in Classics at the University of Florida. She holds a BA in Philology majoring in Classics (2013), and an MA in Ancient Greek Philology (2015) from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. Her research interests include ancient Greek and Roman drama, literary reception, digital humanities, gender studies, and film studies. She is an alumna of the American Academy in Rome CSS and an Intersections-Mellon Grant Doctoral Student. Anastasia has also received a UF Graduate Student Teaching Award for the 2017-2018 academic year. Her dissertation explores the social dynamics of space in ancient and contemporary theater, cinema, and digital games.

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