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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Comedy and tragedy In a more humorous way, in “Lysistrata,” the playwright Aristophanes imagines the women of Athens protesting the destructive Peloponnesian War by going on a sex strike.

The Quad Cities’ Genesius Guild theater opens its 69th season of free theater with the classic Greek tragedy “Oedipus Rex” this weekend. Performances are June 7, 8, 14, and 15 at 7 p.m. in ...

Book Review: 'Glorious Exploits' turns classical history into an endearing comedy about tragedy Best friends Lampo and Gelon are potters by trade, but in their souls they’re poets ...