Shaped by Hegel, philosophy’s approach to Antigone has always been firmly rooted in all the assumptions of realism, with proper, true-to-life, consistent, and plausible characters. These characterological mimetic interpretations often feed off each other within context what’s perceived as “realist” drama, its focus on characters their insoluble, hence tragic, conflict. Starting twentieth-centur...

Marlinspike is an interactive drama system. It produces a story by playing short pre-authored story components called scenes in response to the actions of a human player. Marlinspike selects the next scene to play so as to reincorporate—or narratively build upon—as much of the story-so-far as possible. In accordance with an Aristotelian definition of narrative unity, this reincorporation serves...

The dramatic form of Exquisite Pain (2005), a recent production by the leading British performance group Forced Entertainment, can be regarded as non-standard in several respects. First of all, the performances of Forced Entertainment are so different from 'conventional' plays that they have been championed as an example of post-dramatic theatre. Since theatre and drama have at all times tested...

Drama, at least according to the Aristotelian view, is effective inasmuch as it successfully mirrors real aspects of human behavior. This leads to the hypothesis that successful dramas will portray fictional social networks that have the same properties as those typical of human beings across ages and cultures. We outline a methodology for investigating this hypothesis and use it to examine ten...