Chi-Raq
By Spike Lee Chi-Raq is a film by Spike Lee, a prominent Black director whose films centre around racism and anti-black violence in America. He takes Lysistrata and places it in the gang wars of Chicago, translating…
By Spike Lee Chi-Raq is a film by Spike Lee, a prominent Black director whose films centre around racism and anti-black violence in America. He takes Lysistrata and places it in the gang wars of Chicago, translating…
By Naomi Scott Abstract: What’s the difference between a metaphor and a joke? At first this might seem a strange question. Indeed, the differences are so obvious, and the similarities so much less so, that the question…
By Kathryn Bosher Abstract: Studies of ancient theatre have traditionally taken Athens as their creative centre. In this book, however, the lens is widened to examine the origins and development of ancient drama, and…
By Aristophanes, translated, with introduction, notes, and commentaries, by Sarah Ruden Abstract: This rollicking new translation of Aristophanes’ comic masterpiece is rendered in blank verse for dialogue and in lyric…
by Yiqun Zhou Abstract: Ancient China and Greece are two classical civilisations that have exerted far-reaching influence in numerous areas of human experience and are often invoked as the paradigms in East-West…