Preclassical Drama (Critical Survey of Drama)
Introduction
Although theater is a comparatively late phenomenon in the history of human culture, its origins are obscure. Drama in the Western world goes back to Greek origins scarcely more than twenty-five hundred years ago—well within the period of recorded history—but information about the origin of Greek drama is scant and not always reliable, coming as it does from sources such as Aristotle, who wrote long after the fact. Other cultural traditions, however, though never fully documented from the...
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