PLAYS FROM THE DISASTER: ON THE 20TH ANNIVERSARY, HOW DRAMATISTS DOCUMENTED IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN
 As Karen Malpede points out in her introduction to Acts of War, tragedy "arose as a complement to, perhaps also as an antidote to, war." The greatest of the early playwrights wrote from experience"Aeschylus and Sophocles were generals in the Athenian army, and Euripides was a combat veteran. Electronic media reports war instantly, but the stage […]