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'A useful, reader-friendly introduction aimed at non-specialists, Euripides Our Contemporary offers detailed summaries of Euripides' plays, along with keen observations on their relevance for today's theater. Walton demonstrates how the tragedian's 'shocks to the system' have lost none of their power over the centuries.' * Rush Rehm, author of Radical Theatre: Greek Tragedy and the Modern World * 'In this masterful reevaluation of Euripides, Michael Walton recasts the playwright in light of his resonance for today's translators and directors. Springing from the rehearsal room rather than the page, Walton shows us not only why we are ready for Euripides, but why we so desperately need him.' * Mary Louise Hart, Associate Curator of Antiquities, J. Paul Getty Museum * 'Euripides is very much a relevant voice in our times and Walton has gone to great lengths in his career and in his writing to remind us of that.' * George Kovacs, Comparative Drama, Vol. 44, No. 2, Summer 2010 * 'Walton fashions an image of Euripides as a dynamic and flexible dramatist, one capable of reconsidering earlier themes and characters because he has changed his mind or because he is writing a different play.' * George Kovacs, Comparative Drama, Vol. 44, No. 2, Summer 2010 * 'Walton is an experianced scholar and a perceptive critic of theatre... His easy familiarity with the material and his enthusiasm for the theatrical possibilities that Euripides continues to offer are infectious.' * George Kovacs, Comparative Drama, Vol. 44, No. 2, Summer 2010 * Walton produces a complete picture of a dynamic and iconoclastic dramatist * George Kovacs, Comparative Drama, Vol. 44, No. 2, Summer 2010 * 'Walton's light touch and use of modern drama as interpretive comparanda (from the point of view of a classicist, anyway) is likely to open new avenues of comparison for both the scholar and theater practitioner.' * George Kovacs, Comparative Drama, Vol. 44, No. 2, Summer 2010 * 'An alternative title for this lively book, written for the general reader and theater practitioners, might have been Why Euripides? Few people are better suited to answer this question than J. Michael Walton, who has worked on this playwright in every way possible: teacher, translator, scholar and director. Walton's book is grounded very firmly in theatrical experience and ...[is a] stimulating and enjoyable work' * Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2011.01.24 *

'A useful, reader-friendly introduction aimed at non-specialists, Euripides Our Contemporary offers detailed summaries of Euripides' plays, along with keen observations on their relevance for today's theater. Walton demonstrates how the tragedian's 'shocks to the system' have lost none of their power over the centuries.' Rush Rehm, author of Radical Theatre: Greek Tragedy and the Modern World 'In this masterful reevaluation of Euripides, Michael Walton recasts the playwright in light of his resonance for today's translators and directors. Springing from the rehearsal room rather than the page, Walton shows us not only why we are ready for Euripides, but why we so desperately need him.' Mary Louise Hart, Associate Curator of Antiquities, J. Paul Getty Museum

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J. Michael Walton has published and/or edited seven books on classical theatre history and has nine translations of Euripides plays in print, many on the Methuen Drama list. He was professor of Drama at Hull University for many years.

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