Posts by Alan Sommerstein
Two productions next year
October 12, 2012
Spring 2013 will be Greek drama time in Nottingham! Two productions, a comedy and a tragedy, and both on the theme of the miseries of war. In April, the University’s own Lakeside Arts Centre will stage Aristophanes’ comedy Lysistrata, in which the women of Greece, by withdrawing their sexual services, compel their menfolk to stop fighting …
Thoughts about Aeschylus’ Oresteia
October 11, 2012
Alan Sommerstein reflects on some issues raised in Aeschylus’ Oresteia trilogy which are as vital now as they were in 458 BC when it was first produced. This post originally appeared in the “Writer’s Choice” series on the blog of Prof. Norman Geras (www.normblog.typepad.com). Grateful thanks to Prof. Geras for permitting it to be …
