James Armstrong, Playwright

The Italian Renaissance writer Ludovico Ariosto is most famous for his verse epic Orlando Furioso . However, he also wrote plays, including...

I returned tonight from seeing Theater of War 's presentation of the ancient Greek tragedy Ajax  by Sophocles live in Four Freedom's...

Classicists often refer to the philosophical and political plays of Aristophanes as "Old Comedy" to distinguish them from the more...

One of the most famed practitioners of  commedia erudita --or learned comedy--in Renaissance Italy was the statesman and political theorist ...

If you've ever wanted to see a theatre where the ancient Romans put on plays, Spain is actually a pretty good place to go. I've bee...

The Roman playwright Plautus turned the story of Hercules's conception by Jupiter into a comedy, but the mingling of gods and heroes in...

We generally think of the Greeks and Romans as dividing their plays into clear examples of comedies and tragedies, but Plautus's play Am...

One of the first playwrights in Italy to try to copy classical drama was Albertino Mussato, who wrote a Latin tragedy called Ecerinis aroun...

In Renaissance Italy, commedia dell'arte referred to theatre performed by professional actors, skilled artisans rather than the schola...

As the middle ages in England came to a close, the Plantagenet dynasty split into two factions: the House of Lancaster and the House of York...

A picture of Roman drama does not begin to emerge until the 3rd Century BCE. It was likely influenced, as all Roman culture was, by the Etr...