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* [[Audience Monologue]]: Opens with one from the Nurse explaining what's happened. [[Lampshading|Lampshaded]] when the children's tutor comes and asks why she's talking to herself.
* [[Black Magician Girl]] - Medea.
* [[Bowdlerise|Bowdlerization]] - Apparently, there are versions where it wasn't her killing her kids, it was angry townsfolk, who later bribed the guy who wrote the play. After that it wasn't okay to sacrifice children to gods anymore. [https://web.archive.org/web/20140914114056/http://www.stoa.org/diotima/anthology/medeahyposcholia.shtml Here] are some infobits.
** In another version, Medea killed her children because Jason was essentially going to declare her an unfit mother on top of everything else, take away the only happiness she had, and (it was implied) raise the children in an environment that would indoctrinate them against the barbarians, aka their mother.
* [[Character Title]]
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