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...first step is to transform the impious into raving maniacs. The Theban women have already become blood-thirsty maenads at the start of the play; Pentheus (John Claflin), the proud young king of Thebes, is gradually given a taste for women's clothing as well as for self-destruction...
...selected Plays demonstrate, Kleist was the first great absurdist, obsessed with justice and the black-comic ways in which it can miscarry. The Broken Pitcher centers on a judge who is also a malefactor; in Amphitryon, the great Theban commander rages against an impostor "who wants me . .. out of the fortress of my consciousness." This sense of self as an armed camp is one of many traits that make the playwright seem a contemporary of another great admirer, Bertolt Brecht...
Grazing sheep, Theban women dressed in flowing colored robes, stern warriors, and mighty Dionysus turned Harvard Stadium into a scene of ancient drama yesterday afternoon before a crowd...
...centerpiece of the site is the ruined temple of Mut, surrounded on three sides by a horseshoe-shaped lake called Isheru. The lake is symbolic of the watery abyss in which-according to Theban legend-all life that is to be found on earth originated...
...this suggests that Sekhmet, who was consort to Ptah, the major god of Egypt during an earlier period, became associated and later identified with Mut, mate of the new king of the gods, Amon. The identification got a boost during the reign of Tutankhamen, who revived the once-suppressed Theban religious cult. Manning speculates that Tut's linking of the temples of Mut and Amon may have been a move to bring harmony and prosperity to a weakened and disordered land. Says Manning: "He had to restore order to Egypt if he was going to rule effectively...