PBS8y
The Different Types of Greek Drama and their importance
The three genres of drama were comedy, satyr plays, and most important of all, tragedy. Comedy: The first comedies were mainly satirical and mocked men in power for their vanity and foolishness.
Simon Fraser University2y
Greek Tragedy (English & Greek): Internet Texts
Aeschylus. Agamemnon. ed. Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph.D. (Greek) (Aesch. Ag.) Aeschylus. Agamemnon. ed. Robert Browning. (English) Aeschylus. Agamemnon. ed. Herbert Weir ...
Cambridge University Press2y
The Cambridge Companion to Greek Tragedy
As a creative medium, ancient Greek tragedy has had an extraordinarily wide influence: many of the surviving plays are still part of the theatrical repertoire, and texts like Agamemnon, Antigone, and ...
The American Conservative2y
RBG and Greek Tragedy
Hubris, or personal pride, often seems to be the cause of this demise, and thus the dangers of pride are a recurring theme throughout Greek tragedy. Of course, warnings about pridefulness aren’t ...
Massey University2y
Greek Tragedy, Then and Now
This course examines ancient Greek tragedy in translation. It looks at the transformation of myth into tragedy in the fifth century BCE and reflects on why these classical dramas remain popular today.
Cambridge University Press3y
Female Characters in Fragmentary Greek Tragedy
How were women represented in Greek tragedy? This question lies at the heart of much modern scholarship on ancient drama, yet it has typically been approached using evidence drawn only from the thirty ...
THE WEEK25d
The Other Place: an 'excruciatingly funny' and 'shockingly frank' take on Antigone
I'd say it's too lean, said Fiona Mountford on the i news site. In Greek tragedy, the endings bring the "purity and clarity" of catharsis. Here, too much is left unexplained. Zeldin does rather ...
The New York Times25d
‘The Line’ Review: Greek Tragedy
The dark side of college fraternity life comes to light in this harrowing, well-acted campus drama. By Calum Marsh When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film through our site ...
BBC1y
Greece boat disaster: Survivors blame Greek coastguard for tragedy
Some of the men who spoke to the BBC over the phone are being held at the Malakasa refugee reception centre, 40km (25 miles) north-east of the Greek capital Athens, while others have now left the ...
Oedipus review: Mark Strong and Lesley Manville star in a tantalisingly fresh take on the Greek tragedy
Oedipus first premiered in Amsterdam in 2018, performed in Dutch, then played Edinburgh International Festival a year later.
The Other Place at the National Theatre review: Emma D’Arcy is riveting in this elegant, atmospheric take on Greek tragedy
Does tragedy run in the family? That’s the question writer-director Alexander Zeldin takes from his source text, Sophocles’ ...
PBS8y
The Different Types of Greek Drama and their importance
The three genres of drama were comedy, satyr plays, and most important of all, tragedy. Comedy: The first comedies were mainly satirical and mocked men in power for their vanity and foolishness.