To qualify for the contest, each playwright had to submit a tetralogy, a four-part work that consisted of three linked tragedies and one satyr play. You can learn more about the types of Greek ...

"The Cyclops" carries the distinction of being the only complete satyr play in existence, Wilson said. Little is known of the satyr plays beyond that they were bawdy and concluded tragedy-laden ...

Eurpides’ work is a "satyr play," and Meromi’s project is a clever riff on this traditional form. Satyr plays were short, hotwired versions of Greek myths, transforming the somber originals into ...

And light relief is precisely what Phil Willmott's brisk, bold production of Euripedes's only surviving Satyr play offers in this marvellous open-air amphitheatre by the Thames. The play takes an ...

There’s also rarity value in its subject matter: the satyr play. Where a good handful of the many thousand tragedies that once played in ancient Greece have made it into the 21st century, a single ...

In classical Athens, they encompassed the chorus in a genre knows as "satyr play," which parodied tragedy and was distinguished by its bawdy humor. The professor said he believed his article would ...