LOS ANGELES " The image of a grieving parent is not an uncommon sight on the dramatic stage. Euripides, whom Aristotle called "the most tragic of the poets," returns to the figure of the grief-stricken parent in "Hecuba," "Hippolytus" and "The Bacchae," to cite just a few disparate examples of characters brought to their knees by the death of their child. Shakespeare offers what has become the ...
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:00AM on October 28, 2025