Wole Soyinka was born on 13 July 1934 at Abeokuta‚ near Ibadan in western Nigeria. After preparatory university studies in 1954 at Government College in Ibadan‚ he continued at the University of Leeds‚ where‚ later‚ in 1973‚ he took his doctorate. During the six years spent in England‚ he was a dramaturgist at the Royal Court Theatre in London 1958-1959. In 1960‚ he was awarded a Rockefeller bursary and returned to Nigeria to study African drama. At the same time‚ he taught drama and literature at
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INDIAN YOUTH:HOOKED OR CROOKED “YOUTH is the best time to be rich‚ and the best time to be poor.” -EURIPIDES This quotation can be applied to Indian youth .We can never forget the remarkable works of Indian youth. Today‚ Indian flag is flying high in every field in the world. The reason for this seems to be: “The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts‚ but how much it digests. The power of the mind are like the rays of the sun dissipated‚ when they are concentrated
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A tragedy creates an imitation of an action that has serious and completed events of a certain magnitude using language and self pity throughout a series of unfortunate events. Euripides wrote the tragic play Medea‚ a play that contained a witch named Medea and a man named Jason that will eventually will become king. Together as one Medea and Jason obtain the golden fleece and come together through love‚ but as Jason gets tired of her‚ he leaves her. Medea becomes hurt and creates a scenario in which
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were defeated by Spitamenes. Alexander may have boasted about surpassing his father’s greatness. Cleitus shouts that the glory of the empire is it not Alexander’s sole achievement but from the blood of the Macedonian soldiers. Cleitus recites Euripides’ Andromache in order to insult the king. Alexander throws an apple at Cleitus’ head. Cleitus may have been ushered out of the room only to fatefully return back. Alexander capriciously slays him with a pike or spear. Almost all accounts speak
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(like in many of the concert halls seen today) and Arena (like today’s sports arenas). The architecture of these stages and of a lot of other structures are direct influences of the Greek civilization. Playwrights such as Socrates‚ Aeschylus and Euripides wrote plays that entertained people in Greece and all
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of prophecy‚ healing‚ music‚ archery‚ light‚ and truth‚ the twin brother of Artemis (Greek) or Diana (Rome) who became associated with the moon. Perhaps the earliest reference to Apollo as the sun god Helios occurs in the surviving fragments of Euripides’ Phaethon. Phaethon was one of the chariot horses of the Homeric goddess of the dawn‚ Eos. It was also the name of the son of the sun god who foolishly drove his father’s sun-chariot and died for the privilege. By the Hellenistic period and in Latin
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Medea is a drama/tragedy play about one unhappiness love written by Euripides who lived in fifth century BC. As we know‚ most myths showing us aspects of human nature. The entire play takes place on the island of Corinth in present day Greece. In the beginning of the book‚ the main heroine‚ Medea‚ starts to threaten revenge on her husband‚ Jason. She states “If I can find the means or devise any scheme to pay my husband back for what he has done to me”. Through this she is just touching on her anger
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Ashes of a Fallen Hero Jason‚ although often mistaken as an epic hero‚ portrays a tragic hero in the ancient Greek tragedy written by Euripides. To be a tragic hero‚ one must first be considered a hero with noble characteristics. In the prelude to Medea‚ Jason sets off into a quest in a ship full of noble heroes after the denial of his claim to royalty. Even with fate leaning heavily on the opponents’ side‚ Jason overcomes many trials lain before him in order to achieve his goals. He is portrayed
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Theatre History 1. Theatre and men are as related as mirror and reflection as self and shadow and study theatre of a particular era‚ and you learn the religious‚ social‚ political and economic influences of that time and also learn people’s desires‚ ideals and needs and gain insight into the present from what has gone before. 2. A) drama means to do or act B) Drama was born out of the dance of primitive man‚ when his instinctive rhythmic movements evolved into pantomimes that told or showed
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Macbeth" and "Madea" Comparison Essay by JPWrite Description: This paper examines how Shakespeare’s "Macbeth" and Euripides’ "Medea" are both tragic plays in the classical sense. It looks at how both Medea and Macbeth lust for the unattainable and how that lust destroys them. It cannot be said which character is a truly tragic figure‚ because both fit the description. It contends that if either character deserves more sympathy it is Madea‚ the jilted wife‚ not Macbeth the King killer since Macbeth’s
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