The little white attic

1/ This was tough to read. The Oresteia , Aeschylus’s masterpiece, was first performed in 458 BC. Seven Against Thebes was produced in 467 ...

1/ Another blasphemous play from Euripides.  This is how the play starts: amidst the chaos in Thebes, Lycus attacks the town, kills King Cre...

1/ Written ca 424 BC, it’s set around the same time as The Trojan Women , which was performed in 415 BC. Is it not interesting that Euripide...

1/ The premise is simple: two Athenian men Peisetairus and Euelpides, fed up with the world in which they live, go to the land of the birds ...

1/ Strepsiades is an old farmer who runs into debt because of his son Pheidippides’s love of horses. Hearing about the Thinkery and the new ...

Also known as Thesmophoriazusae , this play was first performed in 411 BC, the same year as Lysistrata , another play about the battle of th...

Now that I have read the greatest plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, it’s natural to get to the comedian and fourth great playwri...

The first thing I’m going to say is that The Bacchae is said to be Euripides’s greatest play. The second thing is that it’s a play that req...

When I read Shakespeare’s contemporary playwrights in England, or Spanish Golden Age playwrights such as Lope de Vega, I think Shakespeare’s...

1/ Wouldn’t you agree it’s a good idea that I, instead of going straight from Molière (1622–1673) to his contemporary Racine (1639–1699), re...