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Aeschylus (525 BC—456 BC; Greek: Αἰσχύλος) was a playwright of ancient Greece. Aeschylus was the earliest of the three greatest Greek tragedians, the others being Sophocles and Euripides. Aeschylus - Biography. Born in Eleusis, a district of Athens, he wrote his first plays in 498 BC, but his earliest surviving play is possibly The Suppliants, written in approximately 490 BC. That same year, he participated in the Battle of Ma ...

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Euripides (c. 480 BCE) was one of the three great tragedians of classical Athens, along with Aeschylus and Sophocles. He is believed to have written over ninety plays, eighteen of which have survived. It is now widely believed that a nineteenth, Rhesus, was probably not by Euripides. [1] Fragments, some of them substantial, of most of the other plays also survive. More of his plays have survived than those of Aeschylus and Sophocles together, partly because of the chance preservation of a manuscript that was prob ...

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Years are approximate Sophocles - The Theban plays. 442 BC Antigone 427 BC Oedipus the King (Oedipus Rex or Oedipus Tyrannos) 407 BC Oedipus at Colonus Sophocles - Other plays. 445 BC Ajax 413 BC The Trachiniae 410 BC Electra 410 BC Philoctetes Sophocles - Fragmentary plays. 5th century BC The Tracking Satyrs ...

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Euripides - Tragedies of Euripides. Alcestis (438 BCE, second prize) Medea (431 BCE, third prize) Heracleidae (c. 430 BCE) Hippolytus (428 BCE, first prize) Andromache (c. 425 BCE) Hecuba (c. 424 BCE) The Suppliants (c. 423 BCE) Electra (c. 420 BCE) Heracles (c. 416 BCE) Trojan Women (415 BCE, second prize) Iphigeneia in Tauris (c. 414 BCE)See also:

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Born in Eleusis, a district of Athens, he wrote his first plays in 498 BC, but his earliest surviving play is probably The Persians, performed in 472 BC. In 490 BC, he participated in the Battle of Marathon, and in 480 BC he fought at the Battle of Salamis. Salamis was the subject of The Persians, written eight years later; it is now generally accepted that The Suppliants, once thought to be Aeschylus's earliest surviving tragedy, and so the earliest complete Attic tragedy to survive, was written in the last decade of his life, m ...

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Born in Eleusis, a district of Athens, he wrote his first plays in 498 BC, but his earliest surviving play is possibly The Suppliants, written in approximately 490 BC. That same year, he participated in the Battle of Marathon, and in 480 BC he fought at the Battle of Salamis. Salamis was the subject of his play The Persians, written in 472 BC; it is possible that The Suppliants was written after this, making The Pe ...

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A tragedy may be defined loosely as any work of fiction in which the protagonist suffers a fall in his or her fortunes, and ends in a worse state than that in which they began. Works as diverse as Oedipus Rex, Hamlet, Hedda Gabler and Scarface may thus be classified as tragedies. Throughout much of Western thought, however, tragedy has been defined in more precise terms, following the precepts set out by Aristotle: it is a form of drama characterized by seriousness and dignity, usually involving a co ...

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According to legend Euripides was born in Salamís on September 23 (480 BCE); the day of the Persian War's greatest naval battle. His mother's name was Cleito, and his father's either Mnesarchus or Mnesarchides. Evidence suggests that Euripides' family was financially well off, and very influential. As a result, he was exposed to the great philosophers of the day, including Protagoras, Socrates, and Anaxagoras. He had a wife named Melito, and together they had three sons. It is rumored that he also had a daughter, but she was k ...

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Aeschylus' work has a strong moral and religious emphasis, concentrating on man's position in the cosmos in relation to the gods, divine law and divine punishment in the Oresteia trilogy. Besides the literary merit of his work, Aeschylus' greatest contribution to the theater was the addition of a second actor to his scenes. Previously, the action took place between a single actor and the Greek chorus. This invention was only attributed ...

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Euripides first competed in the famous Athenian dramatic festival (the Dionysia) in 455 BCE, one year after the death of Aeschylus. He came in third, because he refused to cater to the fancies of the Judges. It was not until 441 BCE that he won first place, and over the course of his lifetime, Euripides claimed a mere four victories. He was a frequent target of Aristophanes' humor. He appears as a character in The Acharnians, Thesmophoriazusae, and most memorably in The Frogs, where Dionysus travels to Hades to bring Euripides back from the dead. After a competition of poetry, Di ...

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The classical tradition of Greek and Roman tragedy was largely forgotten in Western Europe from the Middle Ages to the beginning of 16th century, and public theater in this period was dominiated by mystery plays, morality plays, farces and miracle plays, etc. As early as 1503 however, original language versions of Sophocles, Seneca, Euripides, Aristophanes, Terence and Plautus were all available in Europe and the next forty years would see humanists and poets both translating these classics and adapting them. In the 1540s, the continental un ...

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Shakespeare on screen - All's Well That Ends Well. BBC Television Shakespeare All's Well That Ends Well (TV, UK, 1980) Released in the USA as part of the "Complete Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare" series. Shakespeare on screen - As You Like It. As You Like It (USA, 1936) Paul Czinner director Elisabeth Bergner as Rosalind Laurence Olivier as Orlando BBC Television Shake ...

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Shakespeare on screen - Henry IV Part 1. BBC Television Shakespeare Henry IV Part I (TV, UK, 1979) Released in the USA as part of the "Complete Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare" series. The Wars of the Roses (English Shakespeare Company) Henry IV Part 1 (UK, 1990) is a direct filming, from the stage, of Michael Bogdanov and Michael Pennington’s 7-play sequ ...

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Shakespeare on screen - Antony and Cleopatra. BBC Television Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra (TV, UK, 1981) Released in the USA as part of the "Complete Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare" series. Carry On Cleo (UK, 1965) is a Carry On film adaptation of Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra and Julius Caesar. Gerald Thomas director Kenneth Williams as Caesar Sid James as Mar ...

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Greek literature boasts three great writers of tragedy whose works are extant: Sophocles, Euripides and Aeschylus. The largest festival for Greek tragedy was the Dionysia, for which competition prominent playwrights usually submitted three tragedies and one satyr play each. The Roman theater does not appear to have followed the same practice. Seneca adapted Greek stories, such as Phaedra, into Latin plays; however, Senecan tragedy has long been regarded as closet drama ...

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The origins of tragedy in the West are obscure, but it is certainly derived from the poetic and religious traditions of ancient Greece. Its roots may be traced more specifically to the dithyrambs, the chants and dances honoring the Greek god Dionysus, later known to the Romans as Bacchus. These drunken, ecstatic performances were said to have been created by the satyrs, half-goat beings who surrounded Dionysus in his revelry, and the Greek words tragos meaning "goat" and aeidein "to sing" were combined in the word tragoidia< ...

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The philosopher Aristotle theorized in his work The Poetics that tragedy results in a catharsis (emotional cleansing) of healing for the audience through their experience of these emotions in response to the suffering of the characters in the drama. Not all plays that are broadly categorized as "tragedies" result in this type of cathartic ending, though – some have neutral or even ambiguously happy endings. Exactly what constitutes a "tragedy", however, is a frequently debated matter. Some hold that any story with a sad ending is a tragedy, whereas others demand that the story fit a set of requirements (often ...

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In modern literature, the definition of tragedy has become less precise. The most fundamental change has been the rejection of Aristotle's dictum that true tragedy can only depict those with power and high status. Arthur Miller's essay 'Tragedy and the Common Man' exemplifies the modern belief that tragedy may also depict ordinary people in domestic surroundings. A Doll's House (1879) by the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, which depicts the breakdown of a middle-class marriage, is an example of a more contemporary tragedy. Like Ibsen's other dramatic works, it has been translated into English and has enjoyed great pop ...

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main article: Tragedy on screen The general belief in Hollywood that audiences prefer happy endings might seem to preclude the genre of tragedy from film. However, the popularity of several cinematic tragedies indicates that audiences can be receptive to the genre. Recent examples include Titanic, Gladiator, and King Kong, all of which can be seen as tragedies, at least by some definitions. ...

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