Flickinger explains the plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides and Aristophanes through the conditions in which they were made. Successive chapters trace the influence of their religious and choral origins, the limited number of actors, the festival calendar, the open-air theatre and its machinery, and national customs, ending with the surviving theatrical records.
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