Because of the nature of Greek Tragedies and the intuition of most people, the common viewer could understand this at first glimpse. It was clear that Creon's hubris and pride would be his downfall.Antigone, acting as the protagonist in the film, is the embodiment of good. Yet, ...
GREEK antiquitiesMETONYMSAFFECT (Psychology)This study explores Virginia Woolf's engagements with the stubborn and riveting character of Sophocles' Antigone, the most famously proto-feminist figure in Greek tragedy. As Woolf's deployments of the character occur only in The Voyage Out and The Years ...
Science, Music and Theatre: An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Singing Tragic Chorus of Greek Tragedy In Chorality, I look at the relationship of text and music. In Theatricality, I discuss the interaction of the chorus with theatre space. Using the singing tragic chorus as a nexus for the...
Greek drama, especially these plays, are about human nature and the human condition. They are interesting in a reflective, thought-provoking way, not an instantaneous "fun" sort of way. They are good, but they are not fun. I am not good enough to make reading these plays be enjoyable; ...
The Theban tragedies of Sophocles have been staged countless times and they will be staged and adapted over and over again as long as mankind exists. This interpretation of the Ancient Greek drama ...
Interpreting Greek Tragedy, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2019, pp. 137-162. Zetti, Rossana. “Sophocles’ Antigone Reworked in the Twentieth Century: The Case of Casenclever’s Antigone (1917).”New Voices in Classical Reception Studies, no. 12, 2018, pp. 88-107.Need a custom ...
Because of the nature of Greek Tragedies and the intuition of most people, the common viewer could understand this at first glimpse. It was clear that Creon's hubris and pride would be his downfall.Antigone, acting as the protagonist in the film, is the embodiment of good. Yet, ...