A tragedy set in Corinth, where Medea, a foreign-born woman who once gave up her homeland to help her husband Jason, finds herself abandoned when he decides to marry the king's daughter. Cast out and humiliated, she weighs her options with fierce intelligence. The play explores betrayal, honour, the position of women and outsiders in Greek society, and the terrible lengths to which anger can drive a person. It remains one of the most performed and debated of all Greek tragedies.