The little white attic

1/ When my friend Himadri joined Tom’s read-along of the ancient Greek plays in 2022, he noted a few times the big differences between the E...

As I read the play in Gilbert Murray’s translation, I will use his spellings (Latinised names such as Clytemnestra, rather than Greek transl...

1/ As the final part of the Oresteia , this is quite a strange play. After the murder of his mother Klytaimestra (better known as Clytemnest...

1/ As written in the previous blog post, this is the second part of the trilogy, and about the killing of Klytaimestra (also known as Clytem...

1/ First, some context: the Oresteia was first performed in 458 BC. Agamemnon is about the murder of Agamemnon by his wife Clytemnestra, or...

1/ Nobody told me about the parallels between Electra and Hamlet .  “ELECTRA […] There is my mother: she, My mother! has become my bitteres...

Welcome to another episode of Shakespeare fan talking nonsense about ancient Greek drama.  1/ The Women of Troy is rather static and I perso...

1/ Many years before the play begins, Creusa, daughter of King Erechtheus, was raped by the god Apollo. She abandoned the child, not knowing...

1/ My first ancient Greek play is Oedipus Rex or Oedipus Tyrannus or King Oedipus, in E. F. Watling’s translation. Compared to the plays ...

  As fans were celebrating the 20th anniversary of the film, I thought why not revisit it? So I did. And I didn’t like it, though visually i...