Aeschylus’ geographic imagination

Metatheatre in Aeschylus’ Oresteia

Lionel Abel coined the word ‘metatheatre’ in his 1963 book, Metatheatre: A New View of Dramatic Form, claiming he had discovered a new type of theatre, and cited Shakespeare’s Hamlet as the first metatheatrical play. Over the intervening decades, various scholars have pushed the incidence of the earliest metatheatrical play back beyond Hamlet. Richard Hornby, in his 1986 book, Drama, Metadrama,...

Sophrosyne in Aeschylus

Validating the imagination questionnaire

The purpose of the present study was to validate the Liang, Su, Chang and Lin imagination questionnaire. The research method, correlation and statistical population of this study were all secondary school students in Ahvaz. 300 students (150 boys and 150 girls) were selected by multistage random sampling method. The Liang, Su, Chang and Lin imagination questionnaire were used to measure imagina...

Legal Action: The Trial As Theater in Aeschylus' Oresteia

Aeschylus' Oresteia is a key text for analyzing the relationship between law and drama both because it includes the earliest surviving instance of a trial scene in western drama and because it is explicitly concerned with the nature of trials, telling a story of repeated conflict that can only be resolved by the invention of the trial as a new form of action. First produced in Athens in 458 B.C...

Imagination Amplification

54 January/February 2000 Michael F. Cohen Microsoft Research It would be easy to gaze into the distant future and speculate what image synthesis technology may be. Since Star Trek with its Holodeck has already done this far better than I can, prognosticating will not be my main focus here. Instead, I hope to relate some of my own inspiration for getting involved with computer graphics, an inspi...