Hecuba

Hecuba
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Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Total Pages : 41
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ISBN-10 : 9780822235194
ISBN-13 : 0822235196
Rating : 4/5 (196 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Hecuba by : Marina Carr

Download or read book Hecuba written by Marina Carr and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2017-03-16 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Troy has fallen. It’s the end of war and the beginning of something else. Something worse. As the cries die down after the final battle, there are reckonings to be made. Humiliated by her defeat and imprisoned by the charismatic victor Agamemnon, the great queen Hecuba must wash the blood of her buried sons from her hands and lead her daughters forward into a world they no longer recognize. Agamemnon has slaughtered his own daughter to win this war. But now another sacrifice is demanded…In a world where human instinct has been ravaged by violence, is everything as it seems in the hearts of the winners and those they have defeated?


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