The three genres of drama were comedy, satyr plays, and most important of all, tragedy. Comedy: The first comedies were mainly satirical and mocked men in power for their vanity and foolishness.

Drama was classified according to three different types or genres: comedy, tragedy and satyr plays ... is the oldest surviving of all Greek plays. His pupil, Sophocles went on to add a third ...

It's a tragedy older than the galaxy itself. Strip away the lightsabers and starships, and what you find is Sophocles. A ...

Evie Greville attends Antigone 89 and witnesses a striking depiction of terror and tension in 1989 Berlin as a traditional ...

The story of Eurydice, a character in Greek mythology, draws parallels in the tragedy stakes with Shakespeare ... s currently playing at the Lyric Theatre (City AM gave the production two ...

and is the fulcrum on which the play is balanced. It speaks to the power of Greek tragedy, as well as its origins as a religious event, that it finds strength and functions through paradox.

Greek tragedy dramatized different points of view ... I can think of many fascinating plays that could be written about the Declaration of Independence, including one about the effect of the ...

Journalist Jeanne Carstensen writes about the incident in the book "A Greek Tragedy: One Day, a Deadly Shipwreck and the Human Cost of the Refugee Crisis" and talks with host Deepa Fernandes about ...

Why do we keep returning to Greek tragedy? These ancient texts and the way we study them in classrooms can often feel rigid, ...