In the last year of his life, Ted Hughes completed translations of three major dramatic works: Racine\'s Phedre , Euripedes\' Alcestis , and the trilogy of plays known as at The Oresteia , a family story of astonishing power and the background or inspiration for much subsequent drama, fiction, and poetry.
The Oresteia --Agamemnon, Choephori, and the Eumenides--tell the story of the house of Atreus: After King Agamemnon is murdered by his wife, Clytemnestra,.
In the last year of his life, Ted Hughes completed translations of three major dramatic works: Racine\'s Phedre , Euripedes\' Alcestis , and the trilogy of plays known as at The Oresteia , a family story of astonishing power and the background or inspiration for much subsequent drama, fiction, and poetry
