The ancient world, from the earliest times to 800 AD . Sophocles — a portrait-statue, now in theLate ran Museum at Rome. 222] THE GREEK THEATER 215 duced some two hundred plays, of which thirty-one flays were all tragedies. Comedy also grew out of the worship of the wine god, — notfrom the great religious festivals, however, but from the rudevillage merrymakings. Even upon the stage, comedy kepttraces of this rude origin in occasional coarseness; and it was. Theater of Dionysus — present condition. sometimes misused, to abuse men like Pericles and , its great master
The ancient world, from the earliest times to 800 AD . Sophocles — a portrait-statue, now in theLate ran Museum at Rome. 222] THE GREEK THEATER 215 duced some two hundred plays, of which thirty-one flays were all tragedies. Comedy also grew out of the worship of the wine god, — notfrom the great religious festivals, however, but from the rudevillage merrymakings. Even upon the stage, comedy kepttraces of this rude origin in occasional coarseness; and it was. Theater of Dionysus — present condition. sometimes misused, to abuse men like Pericles and , its great master, Aristophanes, for his wit and genius,must always remain one of the bright names in The Theater. — Every Greek city had its theater was a semicircular arrangement of rising seats,often cut into a hillside, with a small stage at the open side ofthe circle for the actors. There was no inclosed building, ex-cept sometimes a few rooms for the actors, and there was modern. Sophocles and Shakespeare differ somewhat as the Parthenon differsfrom a vast cathedral. In a Greek play the scene never changed, and all theaction had to be such as could have taken place in one day. That is, theunities of time and place were strictly preserved, while the small num-ber of actors made it easy to maintain also a unity of action. 216 INTELLECTUAL AND ARTISTIC ATHENS [§ 223 none of the gorgeous stage scenery whicli has become a chieffeature of our theate
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