Play 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. -
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.
