. The Greek theater and its drama. under a transparent pseudonym, butoftentimes the very name of the victim was retained along withthe other marks of identification. Middle Comedy was atransitional period of about half a centurys duration betweenOld and New. It renounced the political and personal themesof its forerunner and was largely given up to literary criticism,parodies, and mythological travesty. New ,-in-tuxn,abandoned such subjects for the most part and devoted itselfto motives drawn from everyday life. Except for the occasional 40 THE GREEK THEATER AND ITS DRAMA presence of th
. The Greek theater and its drama. under a transparent pseudonym, butoftentimes the very name of the victim was retained along withthe other marks of identification. Middle Comedy was atransitional period of about half a centurys duration betweenOld and New. It renounced the political and personal themesof its forerunner and was largely given up to literary criticism,parodies, and mythological travesty. New ,-in-tuxn,abandoned such subjects for the most part and devoted itselfto motives drawn from everyday life. Except for the occasional 40 THE GREEK THEATER AND ITS DRAMA presence of the chorus, it does not greatly differ in structure,theme, or technique from the comedy of manners today,mutatis mutandis. For the study of origins, however, we must turn back to the ^earliest type, Old Comedy, which is entirely unlike any present- V day genre. We are fortunate in possessing eleven complete -—VTplays of Aristophanes, the chief poet of Old Comedy; and though no two of them are exactly alike in the details of their. Fig. is
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