The Greek playwright Aeschylus (524-456 BC) is the first European dramatist whose plays have been preserved. He is also the earliest of the great Greek tragedians, and more than any other he is concerned with the interrelationship of man and the gods. Ae...

In the city of Athens in the fifth century B.C., Aeschylus, the Father of Tragedy, developed a spectacle in which choral song and dance alternated with solo speeches into one of the major genres of world literature. The ninety plays that Aeschylus wrote...

In the city of Athens in the fifth century B.C., Aeschylus, the Father of Tragedy, developed a spectacle in which choral song and dance alternated with solo speeches into one of the major genres of world literature. The ninety plays that Aeschylus wrote...

Director Tina Landau knows how to do bold.Her take on Charles Mee's "Iphigenia 2.0" is aggressive, in-your-face theatrical, a startling, ambitious re-examination of the Euripides classic done in modern dress and sporting an up-to-the-minute sensibility that suggests today's Iraq conflict as much as it does...

Charles Mee’s plays are like literary Frankensteins. He rips apart ancient Greek tragedies, stitches in snippets from blogs, the evening news and Kelly Clarkson songs, then jolts them with his own prose until they’re ready to stagger, or rather dance, on Off Broadway stages. Mr....

Charles Mee, one of the village elders of the New York avant-garde scene, is being honored by the Signature Theatre Company with his own season, a richly deserved accolade. The 68-year-old innovator joins an elite group of major American artists—like Edward Albee, Adrienne Kennedy, John...

Women are portrayed as powerful in three Greek epics: "Agamemnon," "The Electra" and "Oedipus Rex." In "Oedipus Rex," Jocasta is portrayed as on par with Creon and Oedipus. In "The Agememnon," Clytemnestra was powerful enough to kill Agamemnon. And in "Electra," Electra is filled with joy and confidence.

This is a compare contrast paper between the tragedy of Agamemnon and the comedy of The Clouds.

Examines the Eumenides and Agamemnon of The Oresteia trilogy, by Aeschylus. Describes how Aeschylus constructs an over-arching metaphor for elements of the new Athenian democracy.