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Hecuba and other plays

Chapter 2: MORLEY’S UNIVERSAL LIBRARY.
By Euripides
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About This Book

The volume collects several tragedies drawn from the Trojan cycle and related legends, staging the suffering of conquered families, sacrifices demanded by fate, and the corrosive pursuit of vengeance. One play follows an elderly queen through loss, enslavement, and a quest for retributive justice; others probe the moral cost of filial duty, the strain between human law and ancient curses, and the fragile boundary between piety and brutality. Choral odes and divine pronouncements punctuate the action, highlighting tragic irony, rhetorical speeches, and intense emotional conflict.

MORLEY’S UNIVERSAL LIBRARY.

  • 1. Sheridan’s Plays.
  • 2. Plays from Molière. By English Dramatists.
  • 3. Marlowe’s Faustus and Goethe’s Faust.
  • 4. Chronicle of the Cid.
  • 5. Rabelais’ Gargantua and the Heroic Deeds of Pantagruel.
  • 6. Machiavelli’s Prince.
  • 7. Bacon’s Essays.
  • 8. Defoe’s Journal of the Plague Year.
  • 9. Locke on Civil Government and Filmer’s “Patriarcha.”
  • 10. Butler’s Analogy of Religion.
  • 11. Dryden’s Virgil.
  • 12. Scott’s Demonology and Witchcraft.
  • 13. Herrick’s Hesperides.
  • 14. Coleridge’s Table-Talk.
  • 15. Boccaccio’s Decameron.
  • 16. Sterne’s Tristram Shandy.
  • 17. Chapman’s Homer’s Iliad.
  • 18. Mediæval Tales.
  • 19. Voltaire’s Candide, and Johnson’s Rasselas.
  • 20. Jonson’s Plays and Poems.
  • 21. Hobbes’s Leviathan.
  • 22. Samuel Butler’s Hudibras.
  • 23. Ideal Commonwealths.
  • 24. Cavendish’s Life of Wolsey.
  • 25 & 26. Don Quixote.
  • 27. Burlesque Plays and Poems.
  • 28. Dante’s Divine Comedy. Longfellow’s Translation.
  • 29. Goldsmith’s Vicar of Wakefield, Plays, and Poems.
  • 30. Fables and Proverbs from the Sanskrit. (Hitopadesa.)
  • 31. Lamb’s Essays of Elia.
  • 32. The History of Thomas Ellwood.
  • 33. Emerson’s Essays, &c.
  • 34. Southey’s Life of Nelson.
  • 35. De Quincey’s Confessions of an Opium-Eater, &c.
  • 36. Stories of Ireland. By Miss Edgeworth.
  • 37. Frere’s Aristophanes: Acharnians, Knights, Birds.
  • 38. Burke’s Speeches and Letters.
  • 39. Thomas à Kempis.
  • 40. Popular Songs of Ireland.
  • 41. Potter’s Æschylus.
  • 42. Goethe’s Faust: Part II. Anster’s Translation.
  • 43. Famous Pamphlets.
  • 44. Francklin’s Sophocles.
  • 45. M. G. Lewis’s Tales of Terror and Wonder.
  • 46. Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation.
  • 47. Drayton’s Barons’ Wars, Nymphidia, &c.
  • 48. Cobbett’s Advice to Young Men.
  • 49. The Banquet of Dante.
  • 50. Walker’s Original.
  • 51. Schiller’s Poems and Ballads.
  • 52. Peele’s Plays and Poems.
  • 53. Harrington’s Oceana.
  • 54. Euripides: Alcestis and other Plays.
  • 55. Praed’s Essays.
  • 56. Traditional Tales. Allan Cunningham.
  • 57. Hooker’s Ecclesiastical Polity. Books I.-IV.
  • 58. Euripides: The Bacchanals and other Plays.
  • 59. Izaak Walton’s Lives.
  • 60. Aristotle’s Politics.
  • 61. Euripides: Hecuba and other Plays.

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