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…as he felt they were more respected by critics although audiences generally preferred comedies. After his publication of Julius Caesar, he was looked at as the greatest tragedian since Sophocles and was at the zenith of his literary capacity. The play…

…that conventional marriage is an "evil tyranny," (309). The similarity between Ghosts and Sophocles' Oedipus Rex is a parallel that has been drawn by many critics, Fergusson included. He contends that Mrs. Alving, like Oedipus, is searching for her true human…

…gave eloquent expression to both his anti-Christian views and rationalist, deist creed. Voltaire both admired and very much emulated the ancient Greek dramatist Sophocles, in some of his work. His satirical writing and critical speech were often…

…embodiment of the perfectly and entirely social man in this milieu (in this respect he's not unlike Creon in Sophocles' Oedipus althou! gh Torvald is a much more extreme case). That's why Torvald's comments about how he will act the hero should the need arise…

…and Laughton), first German staging in the Kammerspiele in Cologne, 1948 Brecht adapts Sophocles' Antigone (in Hölderlin's translation) and directs it together with Caspar Neher at the Chur Theatre, starring Helene Weigel; he is also involved in the production…

…. He spent time reading Lord Raglan's The Hero which discusses African-American mythical and historical figures. Also influenced by the likes of Sophocles, Homer, Dostoyevsky, Freud, Jung, Wright, and others, he began to think about black leaders…

…form, style, culture, in every university, high school, playhouse, and cultured home in Christendom today. For poetry: Homer, Hesiod, Pindar, Anacreon, Theocritus, the burning Sappho; for drama: Æschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, besides…

…by the McKeown case. Furthermore it has been held that s 69 does not apply where a witness uses computer generated evidence to refresh his or memory nor where it is used by an expert to reach a conclusion. In Sophocleous v Ringer [1988] RTR 52, another driving…

…(the dramas themselves have an elemental largeness which befits their background. They are tense and simple, like the dramas of Sophocles); and the ' universal' significance of his characters and settings."5 Hardy's great achievements as a novelist lie in his…

…Is Antigone a tragedy or a triumph         Jean Anouilh's Antigone was first produced in Paris in 1942, it is based on Sophocles' version of the novel, which was written in 442 B.C.E and performed in Ancient Greece. It is a modernist play, which…