How was the great English playwright William Shakespeare influenced by ancient Greece, and how did he come to know about its ...

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 ...

Letter: John Starbuck argues the case for Emily Brontë’s novel to be filmed as a trilogy ...

Greek tragedy is radical because it does not treat the chorus as passive, but as a surrogate public, a dramatized citizen body, letting them assert their editorial viewpoint through songs and odes as ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Irene Papas, a Greek actress best known for appearing in the films “Zorba the Greek,” “The Guns of Navarone” and countless Greek tragedies, passed away Wednesday at 96. Greece’s ministry of culture ...