1. He knew nothing of Greek drama. 2. He is reading an ancient Greek drama. 3. Compared with the violence and devastation of Greek drama, the vicissitudes of the production process were more like high-plains melodrama. 4. Euripides is considered to have brought a degree of humanity to Greek drama lacking in the work of Sophocles, his contemporary. 5. He saw the gods of Greek drama. 6. I had never seen a production of Greek drama done in masks. 7. Instead, in the deus ex machina style of Greek drama, a different solution emerged -- albeit from Minnesota rather than Mount Olympus. 8. It has also offered water puppets from Vietnam, Greek drama from Romania, epic theater from China. 9. It has offered water puppets from Vietnam, Greek drama from Romania, epic theater from China. 10. Other sources, besides bird song and purely abstract formulations, included opera, Asian music heard on record, and the poetic meters and forms of Greek drama. |