In his clear preface, Gilbert Murray says with truth that The Trojan Women, valued by the usage of the stage, is not a perfect play. It is only the crying of one of the great wrongs of the world wrought into music. Yet it is one of the greater dramas of the elder world. In one situation, with little movement, with few figures, it flashes out a great dramatic lesson, the infinite pathos of a successful wrong. It has in it the very soul of the tragic....

"This translation brings to modern audiences the juxtaposing carnage of the Trojan War and a love story between its two titular characters by replacing the archaisms with new and accessible phrasing, regaining the meaning and humor of Shakespeare's lines in the twenty-first century"-- Provided by publisher.