Book of Donmon Teith

Wide-ranging study of the myth of Medea, concentrating on but not exclusively confined to its medieval incarnation.

This is the first book-length study of early modern English approaches to Medea, the classical witch and infanticide who exercised a powerful sway over literary

Medea - simply to mention her name conjures up echoes and cross-connections from Antiquity to the present. The vengeful wife, the murderess of her own children,