New Topic Finder

  Greek Drama, Representative Writers Greekdrama , even after the centuries of its creation, still holds relevant for the modern audience for its situations and universal themes, lyrical diction, and intricate plots. Greek drama created an entirely new form of art. Greekliterary artists continue to influence modern psychologists, philosophers, writers and thinkers in diverse fields.   Greek drama witnessed numerous artists of varied literary merit and some of the most prominent and chief representative figures are as under: Aeschylus (525-456 BC) Aeschylus was born in about 525 BC. He is earliest of the best known ancient Greek tragic dramatists. Aeschylus was very skillful at handling trilogy which refers to a group of three plays written to be performed successively by following sequential development of the story. He raised up the dramatic presentation from a choral performance to a work of art. He significantly contributed towards the perfection of tragic form. ...

 Drama and The Polis Greek drama festival has normally been perceived serving a religious purpose of honouring gods, but its political positioning is equally important. This is partially because of the reason that Greeks were keen participants of religious festivals. They used to attend these festivals with natural fervor as a public obligation. When these festivals involved the wider Greek community. Then arose the possibility of serving some political end too by offering some benefits to the polis. Much of the modern scholarship is focused on exploring this aspect of Greek drama. Polis Polis is a Greek term from which we have derived English terms political and politics. When we claim that a certain cultural product assists some political purposes. Then we tend to develop a relationship between cultural product and the politics of the society where it is produced. Thus, exploring political factor of Greek drama would certainly entail its role in Athenian laws and politics,...

Drama is one of the most prevalent cultural products in ancient and modern societies. It stands unique among other genres of literature with respect to its oratorical conventions, formal techniques and performance component/element. Drama performs numerous distinct functions in either explicit or implicit ways. As a cultural product, it has never been limited or restricted to purely entertainment purposes, rather it has been connected to upholding of religious, moral, political and social values of a society. The drama continues to be professed as a form of civilizing agency or an agent of socialization and transformation which shapes the insight of the society where it is produced. Though, several dramas may blur temporal and spatial boundaries and attain the status of ‘classic’ something of extraordinary quality, unsurpassed and invaluable aesthetic appeal. As drama is not only civilizing and educative agency in its essence but is also fundamental in reviving a culture by preserving ...

 The dramatic art has, always, been closely associated with portraying and reflecting a society in its spirit. It is conditioned by the social environment/setting in which it is produced, and it tends to reproduce the social life in all of its intricacies. Thus, drama is perceived to be the constructor as well as reflector of the social realism. It has been the subject of serious academic scholarship for years and is regarded as a suitable literary genre to investigate the issues of critical importance related to moral, social and political aspects of a civilisation. It has been ranked as the highest form of creative and intellectual products which can be used as a suitable epistemological site to understand general structure and outlook of a society. This assertion gains weightage keeping in view the general propensity in human nature to represent its intellectual consciousness and abstract perceptions in the form of a concrete art for critical reception and appropriation of the c...