Drama Quote by Mary Beard

It's not as though there aren't many, many art works and many other cultures, but there was something special about the civic nature of…

— Martha C. Nussbaum

For me, theater will always be very, very much alive, but not necessarily in the theatrical tradition.

— Robert Lepage

I think I come from a theatrical tradition where, if you look at the great theatrical actors of the British theatre, they took enormous…

— James Purefoy

“Stunned by how little he'd gotten over her and she'd gotten over him, he walked away understanding, as outside his reading in classical Greek…

— Philip Roth

Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.

— Edward Bond

Plays are just all sort of playful asides, and there's a great deal of reference here to Greek mythology, plays, and dramas. The idea…

— Lauren Groff

I think great humor lies in playing the truth of a situation. I see myself as a performer and that applies to a Greek…

— Brendan Coyle

“If he were around this place as a professor, he could teach 'Appropriate Behavior in Classical Greek Drama,' a course that would be over…

— Philip Roth

Well, opera began with an intent to resuscitate Greek drama, that is, modern opera as we know it.

— John Eaton

“Listen, Kafka. What you’re experiencing now is the motif of many Greek tragedies. Man doesn’t choose fate. Fate chooses man. That’s the basic worldview…

— Haruki Murakami

In one sense, the Stanford prison study is more like a Greek drama than a traditional experiment, in that we have humanity, represented by…

— Philip Zimbardo

Even hidden in the most squalid Parisian halls, wrestling partakes of the nature of the great solar spectacles, Greek drama and bullfights: in both,…

— Roland Barthes