Aeschylus’ Satyr-Play Heralds Reconstruction, Political Context, and Tetralogy

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

Participatory Republics: Play and the Political

In this paper we propose a critical reading of Sicart’s concept of political play, and we suggest an alternative framework that expands his work. We will apply Chantal Mouffe’s political theory to the core ideas in Play Matters, with the purpose of focusing and further developing the understanding of the political in the play activity.

“Personal Influence”: Social Context and Political Competition

We study a model of electoral competition where voters obtain information on candidates’ platforms through campaign advertising, and word-of-mouth communication. We show that when the costs of campaign advertising are low, an increase in word-of-mouth communication among voters causes polarization. In particular, the more voters can exchange political information between each other, the more of...

Human Resources : The Political and Policy Context

At the request of WHO, this paper incorporates eight issues: donor agencies and their contribution in shaping the HR agenda; national & international agency facilitation of identifying good HR practice and facilitating networks to disseminate it; national & international successes and failures in implementing change in HR policy and practice in health sectors over last 5 to 10 years; the approp...