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Such a tone – comic, but blackly so, violent, grand guignol almost – seems reminiscent not only of Elizabethan and Jacobean tragedy but also of a certain Quentin Tarentino, certainly in Reservoir Dogs (1992) and Pulp Fiction (1995). That we should end up here, having started with Euripides is another way in which the agon in Troades is remarkable.

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