This module looks at dramatic texts from the ancient world (Greek and Latin). It aims to get you thinking about how these texts were performed, and how they are – or might be – performed now. Consequently, it will ask you to review a performance; to perform something yourself; and to use the tools of modern scholarship to write an essay about ancient tragedy and/or comedy. These texts are some of the most seminal of the ancient world: Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex and Antigone, Aeschylus’ Oresteia, and Euripides’ Medea are some of the richest texts the ancient world has handed down to us; Aristophanes and Menander provide the basis for modern political comedy and domestic drama (including modern sitcom).