MEDEA O EL DESORDEN EN MEDEA REDUX DE NEIL LABUTE.

Within the research on reception of Medea in Literature and Art, this paper studies the play Medea Redux, a recreation of Euripides' Medea by the controversial American playwright Neil Labute (1999). Through a comparative analysis between Labute's and Euripides' texts, the procedures followed by Labute to 'appropriate' the ancient mythos are studied, in order to conclude on the aspects that interest the modern author and on the areas in which he innovates. This is done both in terms of the mythical story itself and the characters, and in terms of the elimination or conservation of certain formal aspects of the ancient tragedy. A connection is also established between Labute's theatre (in Medea Redux but also in Helter Skelter, a 2008 play also inspired by the Greek Medea) and the moral background of the Euripidean Tragedy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]