The Silent Patient, a best-selling novel written by Alex Michaelides, is a psychological retelling of this play. She is eventually rescued and returns to life, but the pain and fury from her husband’s betrayal are so great that she chooses never to speak again.
“But why does she not speak?” In Euripides’ timeless Greek tragedy, Alcestis, written in 438 BCE, a woman named Alcestis sacrifices herself in order to save her husband Admetus. Madison Donenfeld, Literature Review Editor
