A Guide to Greek Tragedy for English Readers

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3 Plat. Gorg. 502 D ; Laws, ii. 658.
Conditions of Representation 85 religious and also a civic sanction ; business suspended for several days ; all minds together bent upon a keen enjoyment which came only once a year ; how different from the modern night-performances before a casual audience of a few hundreds, whom chance or inclination brings to one of many " houses " to look by gas-light at a piece which has been acted nightly by the same actors for great part of a year !
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... many thousands, however closely packed in concentric circles, it is obvious that a drama, to be seen and heard and followed, must have the greatest simplicity and clearness. Complicated situations, number and variety of characters, incidents diverting attention from the main business, underplots and unexplained transi- tions, 1 are excluded by the conditions of the spectacle. Thus outward causes conspired with the native bent of Attic genius in imposing on the poet and the actors alike the necessity for directness and unity of effect.

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