Affinities between Greek Tragedy and African Tragedy: A Study of Sophocles’ Antigone and Soyinka’s Death and the King’s Horseman
Many studies have noted that modern tragedy evolved from the rudimentary stage of Attic tragedy to the more sophisticated Elizabethan tragedy. Critics argue that no classic tragedies are written today, although the forms and formulas of tragedy remain intact. These arguments hold true in most cases because contemporary tragedies do not typically involve characters of […]
