...This essay examines the complex nature of political drama. It offers arguments against Christopher Hart’s criticism on Caryl Churchill’s play Seven Jewish Children: A Play for Gaza and explains that the playwright sometimes abandons the traditional bourgeois play format to capture...

... Odyssey Homer Phaedra xenia guest friendship prisoners of war Sophocles Euripides political drama Iliad city-state We can now look at some tragedies in depth, taking a political perspective. We must bear in mind our working definition of ‘the political’ as ‘a concern with human beings as part...

... Annaeus Seneca Roman statesman philosopher and dramatist Galba Vatinius Tacitus’ Dialogus Curiatius Maternus Epitomes of Dio Cato Uticensis political drama recitation rehabilitation Domitian The list of known Imperial praetextae is brief, but, when examined individually as well...

... of the reformation of Scotland’s church and civil order in the nine-hour-long outdoor productions seen in Cupar, Fife in 1552 and Edinburgh in 1554. It makes the case for the dramaturgical innovation and sheer brilliance of the latter work and argues for its influence on later Scottish political drama through...

...A key function of political drama of the turn of the seventeenth century was in helping large audiences understand what politics was. Attention to its role in the dissemination of political knowledge in early modern England, and the recognition of that knowledge as a form...

... is divided into four sections which cover religious drama; interludes and comedies, entertainments, masques, and royal entries; and histories and political dramas....

...This article studies the return of “the Local” to Mexican politics over the last three decades. It defines “the Local” as the local-level actors and institutions that mostly served as bit players in the drama that unfolded in recent Mexican political drama. It narrates the story of the return...

... of the political drama of Cicero's. That the collection included passionate love letters between Fronto and the future emperor Marcus Aurelius was politely ignored—or concealed. And for almost 200 years these letters have lain hidden in plain sight. This book rescues these letters from obscurity and returns them...

...This essay examines the history of political drama in the United States from 1910 to 1945. It describes the diversity of styles used and attitudes taken by politically influenced dramas, including those that supported capitalism in the 1920s, the increasingly oppositional leftist dramas...