The translation I read (by Janet Lembke and Kenneth J. Reckford) was TRULY wild and very modern-like? Agamemnon is one sassy dude. Also, if someone told me that Marina Carr just, like, wrote this version, I would probably believe them. Very excited to read her actual version though!

els discursos d’Hecuba

This now goes competes with The Bacchae as my favorite Euripides and potentially favorite Greek play ever. Getting more time with the players in the Trojan war is always fun but what’s more fun to me is getting time with the Trojan characters. Hecuba and the last children of Priam are in this play along with a chorus of enslaved Trojan women. Seeing what has happened to them post war is just so tragic and heartbreaking. It shows the true evils of war and that the Greeks are no better than the Trojans. This play is also deeply philosophical discussing the play necessity has In politics and life in general, comparing politicians to slaves of the masses. A truly tragic tragedy with great characters, a rich backdrop, and some deep philosophical themes. Doesn’t get much better.

Where can I find Hecuba, who once was queen of Ilium, ye Trojan maidens?

Evidently there's two plays set during the aftermath of the Trojan war focusing on the women of Troy: The Trojan Women and this one. Unlike The Trojan Women, Euripides embeds more--slightly more--action into the drama. Instead of a series of lamentations, we now have a series of lamentations punctured with screaming and violence. First, Hecuba loses her baby girl Polyxena and then receives the startling news her baby boy Polydorus, sent to the king of Thrace with gold to escape the war, was murdered as soon as the war was lost. She begs Agamemnon to allow her to exact revenge on her son's murderer, Polymestor. Agamemnon is all right with the project so long as his involvement is unrevealed. He then wonders how Hecuba plans to subdue a man:

AGAMEMNON: How are women to master men?
HECUBA: Numbers are a fearful thing.

Hecuba and Polyxena are interesting female characters within a Greek play. Hecuba, like Medea, exacts revenge on a man. While I enjoyed the play, it's not as good as Euripides' other plays The Bacchae or Medea.