Hecuba

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Hecuba, deposed queen of Troy, has seen her husband humiliated, her son murdered and her daughter sacrificed. Her grief turns to anger and she enacts a bloody vengeance on those responsible for the destruction of her family.

This English translation of Euripides' classic tragedy, published in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series, is translated and introduced by Marianne McDonald.