Medea

She gave up her kingdom, her father, her brother for love. Now that love has been discarded like a broken vessel. Jason, the hero who captured the Golden Fleece, has decided to marry the daughter of King Creon, and Medea has been cast out with nothing but her two sons. What follows is one of the most terrifying portraits of vengeance in all of literature: calculated, patient, and utterly remorseless. Euripides constructs a tragedy that moves with the inevitability of a nightmare, as Medea methodically dismantles everyone who wronged her. But the play's true horror lies in its final act, when the woman who was denied justice takes the only retribution left to her. It is a thunderstorm of a play, ancient and brutal, that asks uncomfortable questions about what society does to those it discards, and what those people become in response.