Portraits of Medea in Portugal during the 20th and 21st Centuries / Andrés Pociña Pérez, Aurora López, Carlos Ferreira Morais, Maria de Fátima Silva, Patrick Finglass.

• TeilnehmendeR: Pérez Pociña, Andrés,; López, Aurora,; Morais, Carlos Ferreira,; Silva, Maria de Fátima,; Finglass, Patrick,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden,, Boston : : BRILL,, 2019.
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Metaforms 14.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (314 pages).
• Other title: Front Matter --; Copyright page --; Abbreviations --; Contributors --; Introduction --; Main Sources --; Euripides’ Medea in Context /; Medea: the Bewitched Witch in Apollonius of Rhodes /; Versions of Medea in Classical Latin /; Os encantos de Medeia by António José da Silva: Comedy Version of a Tragic Theme (18th Century) /; In Search of Lost Identity: Jean Anouilh’s Medea /; The Reception of Medea in the 20th and 21st Centuries /; Portuguese Versions of Medea in the 20th and 21st Centuries --; Medea as an Aesthetic and Ethical Space in Fiama’s Work /; A Portuguese Medea: Eduarda Dionísio, Antes que a noite venha (Before the Night Comes) /; Hélia Correia’s A de Cólquida (The Woman from Colchis) /; Language, Barbarism, and Civilization: Hélia Correia’s Desmesura (Excess) /; Measure in Hélia Correia’s Desmesura: an Exercise in Recreating Classical Rhythm /; Medea in the Society of Entertainment: a Reading of Mário Cláudio’s Medeia /; Revisiting Medea - Carlos Jorge Pessoa’s Escrita da água: no rasto de Medeia (Water Writing: In Medea’s Wake) /; The Art of Translating a Classic: Author’s and Translator’s Marks /; Conclusion --; A Chronology of Recreations, Editions, and Performances --; Back Matter --; Bibliography.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004383395
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Andrés Pociña Pérez, Aurora López, Carlos Ferreira Morais, Maria de Fátima Silva, Patrick Finglass.

The theme of Medea in Portuguese literature has mainly given rise to the writing of new plays on the subject. The central episode in the Portuguese rewritings in the last two centuries is the one that takes place in Corinth, id est, the break between Medea and Jason, on the one hand, and Medea’s killing of their children in retaliation, on the other. Besides the complex play of feelings that provides this episode with very real human emotions, gender was a key issue in determining the interest that this story elicited in a society in search of social renovation, after profound political transformations - during the transition between dictatorship and democracy which happened in 1974 - that generated instability and established a requirement to find alternative rules of social intercourse in the path towards a new Portugal.