Word: aeschylus
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...first time in 77 years that such a play had been staged in the stadium, whose stone bleachers suggest a classical amphitheatre. The inspiration for the play came from a 1906 production of Aeschylus' "Agamemnon"--the last time a tragedy was staged on the gridiron. Therese Sellers '83, president of the Classics Club and leader of the play's Greek chorus, said yesterday...
Meredity E. Greene, Thomas H. Howlett, Heidi M. James, Charies T. Kurzman, Diane M. Cardwell, and Jacob M. Schiesinger compiled this report. Selected Books Book, Author (Course) Coop Harvard Book Store Paper-Back Book Smith WordsWorth WordsWorth 2 The Oresteia, Aeschylus (Lit & Arts A-11) $4.95 3.95 -- -- 2.95 The Counterfeiters, Andre Gide (Lit & Arts A-19) 4.95 4.95 4.95 -- 1.95 The Castle, Franz Kafka (Lit & Arts A-19) 5.95 -- 5.95 3.36 1.95 The Best of the Achaeans Gregory Nagy (Lit & Arts C-14) 7.95 7.95 -- -- -- The Wordly Philosophers, Robert Heilbroner (Social Analysis 10) 7.95 7.95 -- 6.43 3.47 Off the Record...
...device of shamming insanity has a long tradition going back at least as far as Oceanus' advice to Aeschylus' Prometheus: "To simulate madness is the secret of the wise," Walken's "antic disposition" is correctly a disguise. He appears barefoot, wearing a muddied monk's gown with cowl. He takes things pretty fat, however, In the Nunnery Scene, where he not only berates Ophelia but even knocks her down and slaps her. Later he shinnies up a pole to give a speech...
...Frogs opens on Dionysus and her servant, Xanthias, planning to depart for Hades. Depressed by an apathetic world, in Aristophanes' original they wish to bring back the playwright Euripides to wake the world with witty satire. Once in the underworld Dionysus realizes that the true artist. Aeschylus, can contribute much more passion and poetry than the humorist and decides that he will save the world by returning this writer to life. The modernized version replaces Euripides with George Bernard Shaw, and Aeschylus with William Shakespeare. But Sheevelove sticks closely to the rest of Aristophanes' script; even the scatological jokes...
Nixon recalls that he invited me to kneel with him and that I did so. My own recollection is less clear on whether I actually knelt. In whatever posture, I was filled with a deep sense of awe. A passage from Aeschylus ran through my mind-as it happened, a favorite of one of Nixon's obsessions, Robert Kennedy...