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Description edit
Marianne McDonald brings together her training as a scholar of classical Greek with her vast experience in theatre and drama to help students of the classics and of theatre learn about the living performance tradition of Greek tragedy. The Living Art of Greek Tragedy is indispensable for... read more
Ridiculously Simplified Synopsis edit
Characters/People edit
- Medea: Add a description of this character.
- Orestes
- Clytemnestra
- Phaedra
- Jason
- Helen
- Agamemnon
- Creon
- Oedipus
- Teiresias
- Cassandra
- Alcestis
- Ismene
- Troy
- Pentheus
- O'neill
- Anouilh
- Neoptolemus
- Frank
- Zeus
- Hector
- Dionysus
- Anna
- Cocteau
- Deianira
- Eben
- Abbie
- Jocasta
- Heiner Muller
- Mee
- Stravinsky
- Cadmus
- Seneca
- Soyinka
- Kennelly
- Menelaus
- Phedre
- Tony Harrison
- Hermione
- Thyestes
- Ted Hughes
- Grenfell
- Aegisthus
- Terry
- Michael
- Dassin
Setting & Locations edit
- Euripides
- Sophocles
- Athens
- Thebes
- Greece
- Ireland
- London
- Paris
- Racine
- New York
- Colonus
- Hades
- Hera
- Hecuba
- Oresteia
- Antigone
- England
- Corinth
- Egypt
- Iphigenia
- South Africa
- Alcmena
- France
- Apollo
- Goethe
- Rome
- Germany
- Hydra
- Polyphemus
- America
- Eumenides
- Aulis
- Sicily
First Sentence edit
We can say that dramatic storytelling in Greece began with Homer who told stories to nobles while they ate and drank.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Marianne McDonald (Author)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 882.0109
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