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The Bacchae (/ ˈ b æ k iː /; Ancient Greek: Βάκχαι, Bakkhai; also known as The Bacchantes / ˈ b æ k ə n t s, b ə ˈ k æ n t s,-ˈ k ɑː n t s /) is an ancient Greek tragedy, written by the Athenian playwright Euripides during his final years in Macedonia, at the court of Archelaus I of Macedon.
Scene Location Appr. # lines Synopsis I 1 Roussillon. A room in the Count's palace. 214 I 2 Paris. The King's palace. 86 I 3 Roussillon. A room in the Count's palace. 249 II 1 Paris. The King's palace. 223 II 2 Roussillon. The Count's palace. 60 II 3 Paris. The King's palace. 293 II 4 Another room in the King's palace. 55 II 5 Another room in ...
The beginning of it is lost, but the outline of the missing scenes can be partly reconstructed from twenty surviving fragments. [2] One feature of the play which has puzzled scholars is that while Menander's original play was called "The Twice Deceiving", there appear to be three deceptions in the Bacchides. Various solutions to this have been ...
As source material, Mee would use Greek tragedy, Shakespeare, Molière, Anton Chekhov, René Magritte paintings, Bollywood musicals, and his own writing. He is the only resident playwright of the theatre ensemble SITI Company, for whom he wrote Orestes, bobrauschenbergamerica, Hotel Cassiopeia, Under Construction, and soot and spit (the musical).
An "unspoken" sparagmos may have been the central element underlying the very genre of Greek tragedy. [1] [2] Maenads and Pentheus, House of the VettiiSparagmos (Ancient Greek: σπαραγμός, from σπαράσσω sparasso, "tear, rend, pull to pieces") is an act of rending, tearing apart, or mangling, [3] usually in a Dionysian context.
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The Folger Shakespeare Library is an independent research library on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., United States.It has the world's largest collection of the printed works of William Shakespeare, and is a primary repository for rare materials from the early modern period (1500–1750) in Britain and Europe.
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