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Phaedra and the Greek tragedy that was never really about her

The real story of Phaedra, the woman history keeps getting wrong.

A bloody Greek tragedy gets a queer, dance-driven San Francisco staging

Bard Theatre, which specializes in queering the classics, mounts Euripides' tragedy in which Dionysus spurs the women of ...
PBS

The History of Greek Theater

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 ...
Wall Street Journal

The Cathartic Technology of Greek Tragedy

What if literature contains a secret technology for maximizing our mental health and happiness? Such was the brave hypothesis sketched with sticky pine ink upon a Nile grass scroll in 335 BCE. The ...

Greek Tragedy’s Untapped Canon

Sophocles’ Theban plays have dominated New York theater lately, but many other ancient dramas are crying out to be shared with the modern world.
The New Yorker

Can Greek Tragedy Get Us Through the Pandemic?

“Children of Thebes, why are you here?” Oscar Isaac asked. His face filled the monitor on my dining table. (It was my partner’s turn to use the desk.) We were a couple of months into lockdown, just ...