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    the City Dionysia in Athens, and Thespis won the first documented competition. Capitalising on his success, Thespis also invented theatrical touring;...
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    actors flee in terror, except for Thespis. Jupiter asks Thespis whether he is impressed with the father of the gods. Thespis replies that the gods are unimpressive...
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  • Thespis was a 6th-century BC Greek poet. Thespis may also refer to: Thespis (opera), an opera by W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan Thespis (plant), a genus...
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  • Thespis is a genus of mantis in the family Thespidae. The following species are recognised in the genus Thespis: Thespis bicolor Chopard, 1913 Thespis...
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  • Thespis is a genus of Asian plants in the tribe Astereae within the family Asteraceae. Species Thespis divaricata DC. - China (Guangdong, Yunnan), Indian...
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  • The Foundation universe is the future history of humanity's colonization of the galaxy, spanning nearly 25,000 years, created through the gradual fusion...
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    or story. Before Thespis' act, Grecian stories were only expressed in song, dance, and in third person narrative. In honor of Thespis, actors are commonly...
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    Selwyn and Spencer, Roderic. "Forty Years of Thespis Scholarship", accessed 20 July 2021 Walters, Michael. "Thespis: a reply", W. S. Gilbert Society Journal...
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    recitation by the chorus. Then in Poetics, Aristotle describes how a poet named Thespis introduced the idea of one actor stepping out and engaging in a dialogue...
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    Sullivan on a holiday piece for Christmas, Thespis, or The Gods Grown Old, at the Gaiety Theatre. Thespis outran five of its nine competitors for the...
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  • (v. 163, 263, 269, 308, 399, 457, 517). Pamphlets in reply to Thespis are: Anti-Thespis (1767); The Kellyad... (1767), by Louis Stamma; and The Rescue...
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    genre. Because of these, Thespis is often called the "Inventor of Tragedy"; however, his importance is disputed, and Thespis is sometimes listed as late...
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    parts of Thespis. They argue that Sullivan's having brought the unpublished Thespis score to New York, when there were no plans to revive Thespis, might...
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  • to: A citizen of the Ancient Greek city of Thespiae An actor or actress Thespis, the first credited actor A member of the International Thespian Society...
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    Greek called Thespis of Icaria in Athens. Writing two centuries after the event, Aristotle in his Poetics (c. 335 BCE) suggests that Thespis stepped out...
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    Wikimedia Commons has media related to Tarucus thespis. Wikispecies has information related to Tarucus thespis. Tarucus at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and...
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    repertory eight weeks before the premiere of Thespis. Sullivan may have been encouraged to write the music for Thespis by Hollingshead's offer of the role of...
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    three years after Gilbert and Sullivan's only previous collaboration, Thespis, an 1871–72 Christmas season entertainment. In the intervening years, both...
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  • other leg. Knocking on wood Spilling water for luck The Scottish Play Thespis Urdang, Laurence; Hunsinger, Walter W.; LaRoche, Nancy (1985). Picturesque...
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    evolve when Aeschylus started writing for it. Earlier playwrights such as Thespis had already expanded the cast to include an actor who was able to interact...
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  • MacPherson as Hugo Crast (seasons 1–2), an interplanetary trader from Thespis who became Salvor Hardin's lover Clarke Peters as Abbas Hardin (season...
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    McConnell Stott, pp. 95–100 McConnell Stott, p. 109 Rees, Terence (1964). Thespis – A Gilbert & Sullivan Enigma. London: Dillon's University Bookshop. p...
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  • international theatre festival for monodramas takes place regularly, the Thespis International Monodrama Festival. Lucio Tufano, La ricezione italiana del...
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    drama was invented in ancient Greece. Traditionally this was attributed to Thespis, around the middle of the sixth century BC, though the earliest surviving...
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    legendary first actor named Thespis, and not the city. Both Thespis and Thespiae, however, are derived from the noun θέσπις (théspis, meaning 'divine inspiration')...
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    satyrs. Others suggest that the term came into being when the legendary Thespis (the root for the English word thespian) competed in the first tragic competition...
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    performance of tragedy at the Dionysia was by the playwright and actor Thespis (from whom we take the word "thespian") in 534 BC. His award was reportedly...
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    Time': The Inns of Court and Gorboduc". In Kezar, Dennis (ed.). Solon and Thespis: Law and Theater in the English Renaissance. Notre Dame, Indiana: University...
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    York: Touchstone, 1996.. ISBN 0-684-82630-5 Gaster, Theodor, H. 1950. Thespis: Ritual, Myth, and Drama in the Ancient Near East. New York: Henry Schuman...
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    ancient tradition the development from dithyramb to tragedy was ascribed to Thespis. Evidence from Linear B tablets shows that the gods worshipped in archaic...
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