Dying Acts: Death in Ancient Greek and Modern Irish Tragic Drama

Abbey Theatre Achilles action Aegisthus Aesch Aeschylus Agamemnon Ajax Ajax's Alcestis ancient Greece Antigone audience big speech body Cassandra Celt Celtic chief mourners choral Chorus classical tradition Clytemnestra conception of death convention corpse Cuchulain dead Death of Cuchulain death scene Deirdre Deirdre's discussion dramatic present Dublin dying characters dying into death Electra Emer Euripides example exit fact farewell final funeral Greek tragedy Hades Hector Hecuba Heracles hero Hiberno-English Hippolytus Homeric Iliad Ireland Irish J.M. Synge Johnny Juno killed Lady Gregory lament last words Literature London Lukács Mahaffy Maurya messenger speech modern mourning murder O'Casey's Oedipus off-stage on-stage Orestes Oxford parallels Patroclus Pearse person point of death psuchê reference reports repr representation of death ritual Samhain Sean O'Casey skênê Soph Sophocles stage stylised suicide Súilleabháin 1967 Synge's tragic drama W.B. Yeats whilst witness Yeats's play δὲ ἐν καὶ οὐκέτ