... Medea as the first notable precursor of the feminist perspective. A keen reader of the Greek Tragedy may argue that there are various other female characters that have acquired considerable limelight. Aeschylus' Clytemnestra , Sophocles' Antigone and Euripides' Hecabe and Andromache may be quoted as pertinent examples to substantiate this objection. A close study of all these characters would reveal that none of them ... stands up against her husband in the most ghastly manner. ( Ghastly' of course from the perspective of male chauvinists!) The fact that she launches an intense protest ...

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... originally taken from the Greeks when the Romans conquered Greece, and with it they took home many Greek theatrical ideas. Some of Seneca's stories that originated from the Greeks like Agamemnon and Thyestes which dealt with bloody family histories and revenge captivated the Elizabethans. Seneca's stories weren't really written for performance purposes, so if English playwrights liked his ideas, they had ... the Elizabethan form of tragedy than did Seneca." For the dramatists of Renaissance Italy, France and England, classical tragedy meant only the ten Latin plays of Seneca and not Eur...

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... considered "War Poems." The acts which were performed in the tales exemplified the ideas of violence and vengeance. Klassen provides an example of this thirst for vengeance when he quotes Agamemnon stating, "No; we are not going to leave a single one of them alive, down to the babies in their mothers" wombs- not even they must live. The whole people must ... kindred (Odyssey XXIV. 433-34)." During this time of war, it was common to see ones enemies as bearers of bad fruit or "un-normal". Between 524-406 B.C.E., three poets (Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides) arose and profoundly spoke...

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