Aristotle Tragic Hero
SHAKESPEARE AND TRAGEDY Bevington, etal. SHAKESPEARE STAGE, SCREEN AND FILM, pp 497-499.
Chapter 5 – Theatrical Writing: Perspectives and Forms If art reflects life it does so with special mirrors. —Bertolt Brecht.
Theatre Terms Antigone Greek Tragedy Conventions.
Sophocles Born 496 B.C. and died after 413 B.C. Wrote Antigone in 441 B.C. Lived near Athens--priest, state treasurer and committee advisor for the city.
Oedipus Rex and Greek Theater. Social and Political – Athens 5 th Century BCE Sophocles born in Athens, 497 BC Athenian Government was “exclusionary democracy”
