#contractually obligated

I don’t usually like to get into the whole other camp debate (because inner peace and all that) but this is something I have always wondered, and after the few days we have had, well here we are.

oops there goes his last canon life I guess

"One of the premises that scholars cite in hailing Euripides as a modern playwright is the fact that this play was a work of exile. It was written in the court of Macedon where Euripides went in self-imposed exile. It was not commissioned as part of a dramatic festival and it was not written with the support of the whole machinery of Athenian democracy (a somewhat mythic combination that throughout the history of theatre has been read as the organic moment of the co-existance of theatre and democracy – part and parcel of the Classical moment). Indeed, it could be said that the play substitutes this ‘organic moment’ with the theatrical machine itself: Dionysus provides his own prologue, sets up the play and appears ex machina at the end to dish out his justice. It is as if the whole play is ex machina and Dionysus its master of ceremonies."