Shakespeare's romance The Tempest along with many other works of that time help represent the arts and drama which were large parts of the Elizabethan Renaissance. Queen Elizabeth I made many of changes and influenced all England and also much of the world during her reign. She was Queen of En...

Tragedy was performed in Athens at the annual festival of Dionysus, the Great, or the City, Dionysia in late March. Competition was held on three successive mornings of the festival. Three tragic poets, who had been selected earlier in the year, each presented a tetralogy, consisting of three traged...

For as long as I can remember, growing up in my house, my father was the one who wore the pants in the family. It was a very patriarchal household. He was the breadwinner, he could fix anything broken, and he swore he knew everything, and for those reasons, he was in charge. My mother, on the oth...