Bacchae - Euripides Roos van de Wardt between love and practicality

between love and practicality

Over ontwortelde immigranten

of op een vreemde manier opnieuw begonnen is

reality and imagination crowd and clamber in pursuit of the ‘wizened youth’ who still haunts Father Lacroix all these years later

'Francis Sancher always said he would come to an unnatural end

Bacchae - Euripides Roos van de Wardt between love and practicalityThis stunning translation, by the acclaimed poet Robin Robertson (Forward Prize, Man Booker shortlist 2018), has reinvigorated Euripides' devastating take of a god's revenge for contemporary readers, bringing the ancient verse to fervid, brutal life. Dionysus, god of wine and ecstasy, has come to Thebes, and the women are streaming out of the city to worship him on the mountain, drinking and dancing in wild frenzy. The king, Pentheus, denouces this so