At the Salzburg Festival, a new adaptation of “The Oresteia” will put a classic story of war, democracy and revenge into a modern context. By David Belcher Staging “The Oresteia,” Aeschylus’s epic ...

Performed in the annual Dionysia festivals, tragic drama was a central tradition of Ancient Greece, a method of both ...

Among classical drama's Big Three -- Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides -- Euripides scores highest in the University of Toronto's on-line catalogue. Googling him yields 3,820,000 hits. Why? Certainly ...

Cambridge University Press (www.cambridge.org) is the publishing division of the University of Cambridge, one of the world’s leading research institutions and winner of 81 Nobel Prizes. Cambridge ...

NEW YORK — For an actress with dreams of a Tony award, a tragedy from 431 BC might just provide the winning role she’s been looking for. “Medea,” Euripides’ proto-feminist potboiler about a woman who ...

Because tragedy is the imitation of an action – one from which we may be taught virtue and purged of the inherent sickness in our mortal souls – there is an underlying quality of goodness and justice ...

In common speech, when there is a situation filled with disaster after tragic disaster, one might say, “it was like a Greek tragedy.” The classical Greek stage was well-known for its tragedies.

Peter Pan may deny it all he wants, but the eternal boy is turning 100 years old in 2004. That's if you date his birth from his first appearance in J.M. Barrie's 1904 play. But as befits the ...

When I was a high school student studying Latin, my teacher, an owlish woman named Mrs. Hodges, would often ask us to translate on the fly as we were plodding our way through Virgil’s “Aeneid” or ...