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Talks about plays such as The Frogs , written during the Peloponnesian War; The Wasps , in which an old-fashioned father and his loose-living son come to blows and end up in court; and The Poet and the Women , in which Euripides, accused of misogyny, persuades a relative to find out whether revenge is being plotted against him.

When Rosalind is banished by her uncle, who has usurped her father's throne, she flees to the forest of Arden where her exiled father holds court. There, dressed as a boy to avoid discovery, she encounters the man she loves now a fellow exile and resolves to remain in disguise to test his feelings for her.

In the Oresteia - the only trilogy in Greek drama which survives from antiquity - Aeschylus took as his subject the bloody chain of murder and revenge within the royal family of Argos. Moving from darkness to light, from rage to self-governance, from primitive ritual to civilized institution, its spirit of struggle and regeneration is eternal.

This selection of Bertolt Brecht's critical writing charts the development of his thinking on theatre and aesthetics over four decade