Why this topic, why these plays
The plays gathered under "Athens (Greece)" share a recurring thematic preoccupation that, across 8 different scripts in our archive, has produced a remarkable variety of theatrical solutions. Reading them in proximity to one another is one of the more useful comparative exercises a student of dramatic writing can do, because the contrasts in tone, structure, and resolution show how much choice a playwright really has, even when the underlying subject is the same. The list below collects the works in our library that catalogue indexers identified with this subject; in some cases the connection is overt and in others oblique, but in every case the thematic affinity is real and worth pursuing.
All plays on this topic (8)
- The Acharnians — by Aristophanes
- The Birds — by Aristophanes
- The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1 — by Aristophanes
- The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2 — by Aristophanes
- A Midsummer Night's Dream — by William Shakespeare
- Timon of Athens — by William Shakespeare
- The Two Noble Kinsmen — by William Shakespeare
- A Fairy Tale in Two Acts Taken from Shakespeare (1763) — by William Shakespeare