The Tragedy of Orpheus and the Maenads (and A Young Poet's Elegy to the Court of God)

Orpheus and the Maenads

A Traditional Play in Blank Verse

The preternaturally great poet Orpheus has responded to the loss of his wife Eurydice to the Underworld by forsaking the society of his fellow men in Thrace, where he was a poet-king, and endlessly wandering through field and forest, using his poetic genius to lament his loss. Apollo, the god of poetry, urges him to give up his excessive mourning and return to Thrace and once more sing the deeds of the great heroes of Greece. He warn...