PaperAssignment Literature & Language Essay Research

Write one page, typed, double spaced, as prompted below.
***Book: Euripides.  Medea.  Oliver Taplin, trans.  Chicago & London:  University of Chicago Press, 2001.  I.S.B.N.:  978-0-226-20345-4.
The text of the Medea derives from a play-script written for a single performance
on a particular occasion in ancient Athens, the tragedy competition held at the annual
festival known as the City Dionysia.
At the time that the Medea was produced, in 431 B.C.E., each competitor selected
for the competition was provided with a total of three speaking actors at the city’s
expense. Apart from the chorus, it also appears that one was permitted to make
arrangements for additional non-speaking supernumeraries; but with only three
professional actors to play all the speaking parts, it was necessary to plan the stage action
so that they might play multiple roles.
Identify all the speaking roles in the Medea and make a plan for how they are to
be divided among three actors. Beyond the constraints of the stage action, be sure to say
why you have assigned them as you did.
Note: All the performers were male. Also, the Choral Leader is a member of the
chorus and not one of the three professional actors.