Performed in the annual Dionysia festivals, tragic drama was a central tradition of Ancient Greece, a method of both ...

Greek tragedy is radical because it does not treat the chorus as passive, but as a surrogate public, a dramatized citizen ...

Great films possess a unique power to evoke memories of iconic literature from centuries ago. Often unconsciously, certain screenplays are so powerful that they inevitably invite such comparisons.

British universities have reportedly begun putting trigger warnings on great Greek and Shakespearean tragedies for students who may be sensitive to their dark content. U.K. outlet The Telegraph ...

A notable figure who blazed the trail for Greek tragedy was a man named Thespis. A poet and actor, Thespis began to act out individual characters by switching between different masks. In its earliest ...

The tragic dramas of Ancient Greece often follow a common arc: an unwary but usually unobjectionable hero commits a blunder or series of blunders culminating in personal disaster, followed by fleeting ...

IN the revolt against the long primacy of the classics we find united temporarily, by the bond of common hostility, several camps that on other questions are much at variance with one another. There ...

In classic works of literature or drama, tragedy tends to take one of three forms. First, there are the tragedies that are self-inflicted—that grow out of central character’s inherent flaws, or what ...

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Irene Papas, a Greek actress best known for appearing in "Zorba the Greek" and countless classical tragedies, died Wednesday at 96. Courtesy Everett Collection Irene Papas, a Greek actress best known ...