of Euripides
Translated into English rhyming verse by Gilbert Murray

The action takes place outside the tends of Troy immediately alter its capture by the Greeks.

The play was first acted in the year 415 B.C.

(Dame Sybil Thorndike and Margaret Leighton broadcast by permission of the Old Vic Theatre Company; Dorothy Reynolds broadcasts by permission of the Arts Theatre Group of Actors; Deryck Guyler is appearing in 'The Shop at Sly Corner')