Monuments illustrating tragedy and satyr play

Abstract Figures of Play explores the reflexive aspects of ancient theatrical culture across genres. Fifth century tragedy and comedy sublimated the agonistic basis ...

This open access edition explores the reception and afterlife of the Alcestis, as well as its main themes, the myth before the play, the play's historical and social context and th...

The Revenger’s Tragedy (1606), now widely attributed to Thomas Middleton, is a play that provides a dark, satirical response to other revenge tragedies such as Hamlet. With its ove...

Octaviais a unique play: a work of uncertain authorship and date, erroneously attributed to Seneca, it is the only surviving example of a Roman historical drama. Its story focuses ...

In The Birth of Tragedy Out of the Spirit of Music (1872), Friedrich Nietzsche refined and intensified his thoughts on the profound problem of pessimism and the tragic. Nearly all ...

Abstract The Body and the Senses in Greek Tragedy investigates how embodied knowledge and experience shape the language and performance of Greek tragic plays. Workin...

In Titus Andronicus Shakespeare and his collaborator Peele contributed to the early modern reinvention of tragedy—a genre that had effectively ceased to exist for more than a thous...

Perhaps more than any other single work, Shakespeare'sJulius Caesarhas popularized the image of Brutus as a ruthless and cowardly traitor, Caesar as a noble ruler and sympathetic v...