.... writing and producing plays was instituted, developed and con- Theparent is the male. . . And Ishall o#er youpmof of tinued in one city alone. Furthermore, classical Greek drama what I say. There can be a father without a mother. was not only exclusively Athenian, it was an exclusively male...

... perform- edited by Frances Harding ing arts in general. 2002: Routledge The Žrst section’s essays examine dra- matic rituals and practices among the Nigerian The Athenian Sun in an African Sky Igbo...

... perform- edited by Frances Harding ing arts in general. 2002: Routledge The Žrst section’s essays examine dra- matic rituals and practices among the Nigerian The Athenian Sun in an African Sky Igbo...

... a distorted view of typical Athenian dramatic fare.” A small sample, when handled with care, is not necessarily deceptive or distorting. More...

... nothing more than a contribution to a private academic debate among students in his school. Importantly, the Poetics has nothing to say about the performative context of drama in classical Greece, the festival environment that is surely the most illuminating frame in which to view the Athenians...

... effective in staking out a position within current critical support for his contention that “Athenian comedy discourse. He is implicitly setting his work in was becoming Greek comedy.” This was no opposition to much recent research into Greek longer the topical and bawdy satire of drama. Scholars...

... was the “present” of the narration, he is death, perceiving unmistakable signs wonderful because he “had made the away from the theater, very sick, of the demise of Athenian civilization, strange gesture of throwing his life at purging himself horribly, and in the and never having had great success...

... quo working. This is the same that. Euripides’ plays, especially Electra, were both sort of derisive protest that one hears in rap, especially in reflections of and contributions to the fracturing of 5th the more political groups like NWA (Niggers with an century Athenian culture. He...

... thinges, ye the bottome of Goddes Both texts, Corinthians and The Golden Ass, were widely secret The “Athenian” weaver probably inherited his known, discussed, and quoted during the Renaissance. From name from Paul’s letter in old versions of Scripture. The spirit the early sixteenth century until...

... translation, which might seem stilted sonal protection of Theseus, the Athenian shiny costumes reminiscent of choir robes, and didactic when spoken aloud, suddenly king. After refusing his blessing to either his Greek mantles, or traditional African outfits. became a logical part...

... appeasement of the Furies in effect forces them to relinquish their traditional prerogatives to the new court of Athenian citizens from which women are deliberately excluded. If this is democracy, it is worrisomely compromised-not just once but several times over-right from its inception...

...’ and the mtor’s depar- ted to a late Fifth Century Athenian au- and dialects, he does not use them ture, Elektra literally drags herself out dience the depths to which ‘religious’ ‘realistically’, of the palace, crawling along the chain expression had been relinquished, so...

... Aeschylus's contemporaries. Once we realize that the Oresteia was a directed the Oresteia in 1955 with supreme diffidence. From a "progressive" play for the Athenians that depicted (among other brilliant review of his production by Roland Barthes entitled Put• social developments) a transition from...

... Athenians. Far from seeing himself as a publicity agent, Lessing assumed the role of public educator; he wrote, as he declared any good author would write, to "enlighten the mass and not confirm them in their prejudices or in their ignoble mode of thought." This Age of Enlightenment missionary...

..., sausage-like, at Our stage finds itself heir to a small, invaluable legacy: the literary the other end of the theatrical process. remains of the ancient Athenian theater; a few plays whichare Given these alternatives, the British theater, particularly the among the masterpieces of a supremely great...

... productions of the Athenian assembly on the southeastern slope of the Acropolis. Our choice of space alluded literally and symbolically to the Acropolis not only as the original site of the women’s mobilization in Aristophanes’ Lysistrata, but also as an enduring and timely emblem of democracy...

... productions of the Athenian assembly on the southeastern slope of the Acropolis. Our choice of space alluded literally and symbolically to the Acropolis not only as the original site of the women’s mobilization in Aristophanes’ Lysistrata, but also as an enduring and timely emblem of democracy...

.... Or aspect of the project. As in the Athenian theater there is a wall, a the Ekkyklema could be the Television which nightly serves Cam• door and an Ekkyklema. They are unadorned and rest on the bodia or Afghanistan to the isolated individual in her/his living stage. Agamemnon's...

... lief force being sent at the time of the to-" play to aid the Athenians in Syracuse; consider also The Persians by Aeschy• "You're in the driver's seat, all lus in this regard. On the whole. though. right," joked Smith...

... on Shakespeare, although I believe that what I have to say holds true of other masterpieces as well. I would begin by suggesting that to seek justification for John Barton's and Trevor Nunn's encounter with Harry of England in three Athenian dramatists' handling of Greek myth is not wholly helpful...