Tag: Literary criticism
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Greek Tragedy, Courtly Love, and Renaissance Satire: The Changing Face of Troilus & Cressida
“Lechery, lechery, still wars and lechery! Nothing else holds fashion.” — Thersites, Troilus & Cressida Before we start this week, I want to apologize to all of you for a very stupid blunder on my part. Mainly that all of my notifications for this blog were being sent to a filler email account to which I…
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The OG MC: Homer and the Evolution of Art in the Ancient World
I was reading a really interesting article about Egyptian art and its depictions of unknown and extinct animals. The particular example the article is exploring are so-called “Meidum Geese,” a plaster painting in the tomb of the Fourth Dynasty (2600s – 2400s BC) prince, Nefermaat. Aside from its great beauty and realism, the painting depicts…
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A Macedonian, a Roman, and a Frenchman Walk into India: History and Theatre in Alexandre le Grand
“Your work is puerile and under-dramatized. You lack any sense of structure, character, and the Aristotelian unities.” – Wednesday Addams, Addams Family Values When I started blogging again, I had intentions of talking about what I was reading from time to time, but had never really gotten around to something that might make a good…
Sarah Holz 