Heroes When We Need Them
There’s a mythic pulse in pop culture that the theatre’s missing out on, asserts mythologist Joseph Campbell.
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There’s a mythic pulse in pop culture that the theatre’s missing out on, asserts mythologist Joseph Campbell.
The world’s oldest plays continue in our time to be staged, restaged, mulled over, written about. What accounts for their enduring fascination?