Socrates: Dramatizing the History of Western Thought
By Robert Begley
Author’s note: This review contains spoilers.
Tim Blake Nelson’s excellent new play, Socrates, retells the story of a pivotal event in world history: the trial and execution of one of the West’s first great philosophers—Socrates.1 Socrates’s life—and death—profoundly affected the two most influential philosophers in history, Plato and Aristotle.2 The play …
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