... Sondheim characters, however, 'feel many things at once — "sorry-grateful", as one song [in Company] phrases it'.42 In The Frogs, Sondheim's choral songs function as those in Aristophanes do — punctuating the spoken scenes, offering ...
Introducing the Ancient Greeks: From Bronze Age Seafarers to Navigators of the Western Mind
... rebellion of the helots. Athens, meanwhile, was building her empire, and ... stay officially independent, even of Macedon, until the second century BC ... target practice! In fact, the whole city was a sight to behold. The marketplace ...
Greek and Roman Actors: Aspects of an Ancient Profession
... the barbarism both of civil war and of the tyrant. It is in fifthcentury Attic tragedy above all that the discourse of self-definition through contrast or coincidence with the barbarian Other is developed. In the case of Virgil I ...
... The Wire. In the so-called Bible to the series, a document which seems to be his original pitch for the show to HBO, Simon lays out the principles of the drama: 'Nothing should happen on screen that hasn't in some fashion happened on ...
... Sondheim's ill - starred Broadway production of The Frogs in 2004 , Dionysus admonishes the audience : ' Please don't cough , ... / If you see flaws , please , / don't drop your jaws , please./No loud guffaws ... / Please don't fart ...
The Return of Ulysses: A Cultural History of Homer's Odyssey
... limerick , who are now publishing their versions of the Odyssey online , as in the contributions by one Chris Doyle in the Omnificent English Diction- ary in Limerick Form : Here's Aeaea , the Island of Dawn , Where Odysseus brandished ...
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