Sophocles, one of the most noted playwrights of the ancient world, wrote the tragedy Oedipus Rex in the first half of the decade 430-420 bc. A lethal plague is described in this drama. We adopted a critical approach to Oedipus Rex in analyzing the literary description of the disease, unraveling its clinical features, and defining a possible underlying cause. Our goals were to clarify whether th...

The focus of the article is on writing history community theatre, which was a popular avenue for artistic expression number township playwrights. During period 1984–1994, there flowering arts in Soweto. Numerous plays were staged, but this has not been documented due to lack record-keeping by playwrights and absence formal theatre structures township-based In contemporary writing, received atte...

The article reveals the specificity of heterotopic approach in analysis artistic texts and characterizes functions heterotopias modern Ukrainian drama. Examining dramatic as «other space» it was found that playwrights at liminal stage resorted to creating image a parental house, village, provincial town, which realize heterotopia function prison breaks time; Maidan, Donbass museum archive accum...

Two projects explored the links between language use and aging. In the first project, written or spoken text samples from disclosure studies from over 3,000 research participants from 45 different studies representing 21 laboratories in 3 countries were analyzed to determine how people change in their use of 14 text dimensions as a function of age. A separate project analyzed the collected work...

What does Dennett mean by a "skyhook"? The concept of "skyhook" has an uncertain origin, though Dennett cites an anecdote of "...an aeroplane pilot commanded to remain in place (aloft) for another hour, who replies: 'the machine is not fitted with skyhooks' "... Dennett goes on to explain "The skyhook concept is perhaps a descendant of the deus ex machina of ancient Greek dramaturgy: when secon...

This study involves automatically identifying the sociolinguistic characteristics of fictional characters in plays by analyzing their written “speech”. We discuss three binary classification problems: predicting the characters’ gender (male vs. female), age (young vs. old), and socioeconomic standing (upper-middle class vs. lower class). The text corpus used is an annotated collection of August...