Greek Theatre Critics Quotes

This includes quotes for Aristophanes Frogs, Euripides Bacchae and Sophocles Oedipus Rex.

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1. ‘Maenads do not simply defy gender roles they upend the normative paradigm that restricts women to domesticity and threatens chaos to the polis’ (Bacchae)

  • C. W. Marshall
  • Judith Affleck
  • Marina Goggin
  • Jews Holzhausen
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2. ‘In Frogs, Aristophanes both tests new parameters of Old comedy and also strengthens existing ones’ (Frogs)

  • Dr Sean McEvoy
  • Kenneth J. Dover
  • Martha Habash
  • Judith Affleck and Clive Letchford

3. • ‘It’s mixture of slapstick, nonsense and more serious political, cultural and moral insights, has proved a perennial favourite’ (Frogs)

  • Martha Habash
  • Judith Affleck and Clive Letchford
  • Dr Sean McEvoy
  • Kenneth J. Dover

4. The chorus' madness is the 'positive ritual experience of identification with the god' whereas the madness of the Theban women is a 'painful affliction' (Bacchae)

  • Friedrich Nietzche
  • Marina Goggin (quoting S. G. Cole)
  • Jews Holzhausen
  • Clive Letchford

5. ‘Sophocles conceived doomed Oedipus, the greatest sufferer of the Greek stage, as a pattern of nobility, destined to error and misery, despite his wisdom’ (Oedipus)

  • C. M. Bowra
  • E. R. Dodds
  • Friedrich Nietzche
  • R. C. Jebb
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