Electra’s tragic myth inspired Carl Jung’s Electra complex, shaping psychological views on father-daughter relationships.

The second distinction is between two profoundly different understandings of and approaches to mental aberration: as intensely individual, “medical,” affliction (in tragedy) on the one hand or as ...

As Greek theater influenced Roman culture and eventually European traditions, the symbolism of the comedy and tragedy masks endured. The theater masks became synonymous with the dramatic arts ...

Read our review of Handel's *Semele*, directed by Oliver Mears, now in performances at the Royal Opera House to 18 July. Read ...

Tragedy and comedy are the oldest and most classical forms, first categorized by ancient Greek philosophers like Aristotle. In his Poetics, ...

Peepolykus return to the Pegasus Theatre on Friday and Saturday night with their latest production Goose Nights, a highly energetic comedy inspired by Greek Tragedy. The plot they have devised ...

Megan Tabaque, a playwriting fellow at Emory University, is the creator and director behind a new play “Britney Approximately: A Pop Greek Tragedy,” which will be staged at Emory University ...

Unlike comedy and tragedy, tragicomedy emerged a bit later, in the times of the Roman Empire. Roman dramatist Plautus was the first person to write a tragicomedy.

The actor leads this Netflix comedy about a family of Greek gods set in a modern, metropolitan Crete, or Krete, in this ... among and within its various threads — comedy, tragedy, satire, horror.