The Idea of a Theatre: The Greek Experience |
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actors Aeschylus produced Anaxagoras ancient Greek archon Aristophanes Athenian audience BM Cat BM reg chorus of Theban civic Cleon comic poets competition constraint contest dancing debate democracy Dionysia dithyrambic choruses dramatists Epidaurus father and married Fergusson's fifth century fifth century BC fourth century BC French theatre gods golden century Greek culture Greek Experience Greek idea Greek play Greek theatre Greek world heroic hundred incidental individual invented jokes Kott Laius large number literal lost Lysistrata masks Medea moral myths occasion Oedipus Oepidus Old Comedy oracle of Apollo Oresteian trilogy original Greek Paestum performance perhaps fourteen thousand Persians philosophers playwrights Plutarch poetry political recapture Religion is dying Religious festivals restrict ritual drama scholar sense Shakespeare sixth century BC small number Sophocles and Euripides spectators symbol theatre in Athens Theatre of Dionysus theatrical scenes Theban elders Thebes theme tragedy vase paintings Vases F wine-mixing bowl wrote