- Page 1 and 2: Copyright 2010 The Living Art of Gr
- Page 3 and 4: Preface Ancient Athens in the fifth
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- Page 7 and 8: At first there was no such thing as
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- Page 11 and 12: Brief Textual History How we come t
- Page 13 and 14: Aeschylus (ca. 525 BC - 456 BC) Aes
- Page 15 and 16: Tragedies rarely dealt with histori
- Page 17 and 18: Seven Against Thebes illustrates th
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- Page 21 and 22: has more lines for the main charact
- Page 23 and 24: Other characters come and go: the f
- Page 25 and 26: which haunt families for generation
- Page 27 and 28: libations (hence the title) to prop
- Page 29 and 30: The Furies surround Orestes, dancin
- Page 31 and 32: Performance Tradition This is a ver
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- Page 35 and 36: with Adam. She confronts her mother
- Page 37 and 38: The language is poetic and engaging
- Page 39 and 40: who leaves with the city’s plague
- Page 41 and 42: Peter Stein staged a notable Oreste
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- Page 45: America, and India. The varying acc
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- Page 51 and 52: And worse: One group of soldiers ha
- Page 53 and 54: Charles Mee shows us the horror of
- Page 55 and 56: tells Jupiter (Zeus) the prophecy:
- Page 57 and 58: international conferences held sinc
- Page 59 and 60: Prometheus goes on to describe a re
- Page 61 and 62: him to write this play. After the S
- Page 63 and 64: Antigone, Oedipus Tyrannus, and Oed
- Page 65 and 66: and his wife dies cursing him. He h
- Page 67 and 68: At the end, we have the dead Haemon
- Page 69 and 70: to avoid what had been foretold, bu
- Page 71 and 72: Antigone and her sister, Ismene, wh
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- Page 75 and 76: Electra has fascinated generations,
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- Page 79 and 80: Philoctetes is a late play, and the
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hatred. Creon thinks he will have t
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made them the same height: there wa
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Oedipus did, but a better future se
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esurrected. This is very different
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countries over twenty years includi
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she agrees. He wants her to rehears
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teaching; Miller seems to have lear
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illusory war, created by the media.
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his adaptation and this director. P
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Beat on their bars together. A hung
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suggestively astride a satyr: the g
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The dates of performance for eight
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connected to the play, to highly ir
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audience. Admetus laments only late
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falling from the ship Argo, in whic
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Children of Heracles This play is a
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shocking for its original audience.
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Phaedra is guilty of an innocent's
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debate ensues between Hermione and
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The action takes place before the h
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This is a moving and dramatic play,
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and to be able to seek impartial ju
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The prologue is delivered by a farm
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The audience see the farmer's hut,
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By the end of the scene with Helen
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There has been criticism for the ra
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The Heracles in this play is differ
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Iphigenia tells Thoas the king that
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delivered Ion to his temple at Delp
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In the midst of the comedy, there a
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Menelaus plead with her. Helen make
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way to Delphi, but were detained be
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Antigone view the army from the pal
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Orestes may have been Euripides' la
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demands the life of Iphigenia. At f
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There are interesting roles for bot
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the wild forces that are disrupting
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moment when she recognizes her son'
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the violence with graphic detail wo
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Rhesus thought he could win the war
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It has been claimed that the first
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hero. Now as a suppliant, Jason lie
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The was a strong feminist slant, an
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Heiner Müller in his Medeamaterial
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making a monster of MEDEA like the
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Medea is also used in the colonial
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a heroine. The chorus are those who
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ecause they were convicted of crime
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also shows Brenda as essentially ma
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choose between being faithful to Ra
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captures the essence of Euripides'
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we see a beautiful night and Eben i
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his farm to Nance, but jealousy cau
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juxtaposition of the ship owners on
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duty in the Middle East, presumably
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Physical violence occurs with the C
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and what I want you to know is that
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He is certainly right about his cla
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HYDRA IS US. The many-headed Attis
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original actress, Kayoko Shiraishi,
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leader really needs only one virtue
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This is more about German history t
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for war, and there I was! We all kn
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Edward Chamberlayne is having an af
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Wilder’s satyr play shows how Apo
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Is like the body of a rat Trapped w
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Guymond de la Touche’s version (1
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although the Ion was a direct prede
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The distinction between divine law,
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Suzuki's Bacchae (1977) also shows
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Mahon changes this to: and they bri
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thing he never appears. It is gradu
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calling it "the wonderful, the myst
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Conclusion There are few versions o
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Texts: The standard Greek texts in
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----- Médée. Paris: la Table Rond
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----- Oedipe, Andromède, La conqu
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Gilbert, Helen, and Joanne Tompkins
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Jeffers, Robinson. Cawdor and Medea
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Müller, Heiner. Heiner Müller Rea
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Shechner, Richard, ed. Dionysus in
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---- The Greek Sense of Theatre: Tr