Saturday, April 26, 2014

Responsibility of art and literature

According to Euripides's dialogue in Frogs, "Our best poets...have been the ones who've had something useful to teach" (Frogs 1094-1095), this dialogue represented Euripides believed art (drama) and literature playwrights created should have something useful for their audience in the theatre. He believed this was the purpose of a play/drama. In Frogs,  the play revealed the information about politics, society, war, religion, and many others.
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  1. MANCITY1April 29, 2014 at 6:17 AM

    Hi Kevin

    I do believe the same thing also. I believe that he is trying to say that all playwrights should show the audience something which when they leave the theatre they should be still thinking about that point they have either stressed through out the play or a sub hidden message.

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    1. K.AuMay 1, 2014 at 10:43 AM

      I think all the playwrights at that time tried to connect their plays to the reality they lived in. The lives at that time were stressful when The Frogs was written due to politics and war.

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