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Description edit
Greek tragedy is currently being performed more frequently than at any time since classical antiquity. This book is the first to address the fundamental question, why has there been so much Greek tragedy in the theatres, opera houses and cinemas of the last three decades? A detailed... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Medea: Add a description of this character.
- Tony Harrison
- Samuel Beckett
- Walcott
- Steven Berkoff
- Richard Schechner
- Macleish
- Armitage
- Pentheus
- Peter Stein
- Phaedra
- Seamus Heaney
- Dionysus
- Clytemnestra
- Peter Sellars
- Heiner Muller
- Eichelberger
- Hardwick
- Soyinka
- Jason
- Creon
- Peter Hall
- Jocasta
- Oedipus
- Barrault
- Gruber
- Ted Hughes
- Iannis Xenakis
- Pasolini
- Ludlam
- Timberlake Wertenbaker
- Orestes
- Guthrie
- Foley
- Martone
- Troy
- Wilson
- Wiles
- Auletta
- Mikis Theodorakis
- Daniele Huillet
Setting & Locations edit
- Euripides
- Sophocles
- London
- Usa
- Greece
- New York
- England
- Paris
- Thebes
- Athens
- Caribbean
- Oresteia
- Europe
- France
- Berlin Wall
- Germany
- Northern Ireland
- Italy
- South Africa
- Iraq
- Britain
- America
- Racine
- Massachusetts
- Japan
- Brecht
- Tiresias
- Vietnam
- Rome
- Megara
- Seneca
- Nigeria
- Cuba
- Uk
- Brussels
- Cambridge
- Louryk
- Washington
- Iphigeneia
- Dublin
- Klytaemnestra
- Romania
- Scotland
- Derry
- Sophoclean
- Iphigenia
First Sentence edit
By May 1968 the President and the administration of the most powerful state in the world found themselves in an unprecedented crisis.
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 882.0109
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