Word: aeschylus
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...History, gets her diary up to date, whom will she write down as the Man of the 20th Century? Barring the unlikely appearance, before 2000, of an extraordinarily effective saint or major prophet, the Man of the Century will be a German intellectual, devoted to children, caviar and Aeschylus...
Mourning Becomes Electra (produced on Broadway in 1931) was never a great play-let alone a great Greek play. But it is a play that hankers after greatness (and Greekness) like a schoolgirl with a crush on a bust of Aeschylus. By attempting to dramatize the Oedipus complex on a framework of Greek drama, O'Neill produced a travesty of Freudian thought and something like a parody of Greek tragedy...
FitzGerald returned to his Suffolk solitude, where he wrote his little-known translations of Aeschylus and Sophocles. As he aged, he became one of the county sights-a "tall, sad-faced elderly gentleman ... in an ill-fitting suit. . . blue spectacles on nose and an old cape. . . ." He lived to see his Rubaiyat become famous, but died (1883) a couple of decades before its fame became "a mania which swept the world" and posed a literary question that still engrosses Rubaiyat lovers : How much of Omar is Omar and how much is FitzGerald...
...speak several languages miserably in a baroque drama by a rococco Slovene mystic. Shakespeare and Jonson may seem hackneyed to the man whose camp-chair bears the words "Director," but they are being done weekly in the classroom with great success. And in the whole range of drama from Aeschylus to O'Neill are plays that will make theater-going something other than a trial by ordeal...
...Comparative Literature 3a, where meetings every other Wednesday afternoon have seen the readings of Aeschylus' "Agamemnon" and Sophoeles' "Antigone," the dramatic effect is achieved, it is said, despite the weaknesses of translation. Both the Elizabethan and Greek performances are models that might be copied not only by drama courses, but by all classes in poetic literature. The use of recordings, of readings, and of full-scale theatrical productions can solidify and shape subjects that suffer in their current linear presentation...