Drama Archive
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Seeing One’s Way: The Image and Action of Oidipous Tyrannos
Posted on February 25, 2013 | No CommentsTo find ours, let us step back once more and examine Sophokles' use of words. At a glance we notice a great deal of words related to sight in Oidipous Tyrannos . Roughly twice as many appear to us here than in the Antigone. The number picks up once more where Oidipous makes his final appearance in Oidipous at Kolonos. We can draw little more from this than that seeing and Oidipous are connected, fundamentally connected. -
Speculations of the Death of Roman Theatre
Posted on January 30, 2013 | No CommentsThese mimes were centered around themes of murder and adultery: the amount of indecency was incredible. In a warped sense of Realism, emperors could command a real sex act to take place on stage. -
Seneca
Posted on October 10, 2012 | No CommentsIn two contrasting versions of the play Oedipus, one by the Roman Seneca, (3 BCE-65 CE), and another written about 500 years earlier by the Greek Sophocles (497-406 BCE) there are notable contrasts -
The Greek Achievement: The Birth of Classicism
Posted on August 22, 2012 | No CommentsThis article is based on a lecture delivered at the The Greeks Institute, a series of lectures presented to secondary school teachers in the Bridgeport Public Schools during the spring of 1989. Co-sponsored by the Connecticut Humanities Council, Sacred Heart University, and the Bridgeport Public Schools, the purpose of the institute has been to provide teachers with an interdisciplinary exploration of classical Greece for the purposes of professional enrichment and curriculum development. -
Tyranny, Anarkhia, and the Problems of the Boule in the Oresteia
Posted on July 25, 2012 | No CommentsIn recent years there has been a considerable amount of discussion about the precise significance of these political allusions and Aeschylus -
Four Electras
Posted on July 25, 2012 | No CommentsA first and most obvious basis for comparison is Electra1s prominence, that is the amount of time Electra remains onstage in each of the four plays. -
The evolution of Aristophanic stagecraft
Posted on July 22, 2012 | No CommentsBy the beginning of the fourth century, Aristophanes had moved away from the -
Feeling & Belonging in the Philoctetes
Posted on July 8, 2012 | No CommentsIn fact, by calling attention to the ways in which Odysseus and Philoctetes are respectively closed and open to their own empathic feelings, Sophocles vividly illustrates that one -
Genuine Literary Criticism and Aristophanes
Posted on June 29, 2012 | No CommentsIn order to argue that there is no genuine literary criticism in the Frogs we must first define genuine literary criticism. While it is almost universally agreed that the first piece of genuine literary criticism was Aristotle's Poetics written in 335 BC, there is less consensus as to what genuine literary criticism entails. -
Marriage and Strife in Euripides
Posted on December 11, 2011 | No CommentsEuripides' Andromache is one of the least appreciated Greek tragedies. The play has baffled scholars whose tendency has been to search for dramatic unity by using Aristotelian criteria.
