Inter-Play between the Religious and the Dramatic

Abstract

“In Greece, drama reached its apogee in such a tragedy as Antigone. In Israel, drama gained its highest expression in the passover ceremony. In Christendom, at least until the beginning of this century, sometimes the one type, sometimes the other, has been in the ascendant. But always there has been drama, for in some strange way it appears that no society can hold together with any permanence unless it engages in some form of dramatic expression.”