"Dramatic Poesy had time enough, reckoning from THESPIS who first invented it, to ARISTOPHANES; to be born, to grow up, and to flourish in maturity.

"Yes; I tell you that you look as if you had just parted with all your hopesas if some adverse fate had deprived you of the privilege of living in this temple of Thespis and the muses.

The Drama N. the drama, the stage, the theater, the play; film the film, movies, motion pictures, cinema, cinematography; theatricals, dramaturgy, histrionic art, buskin, sock, cothurnus^, Melpomene and Thalia, Thespis. play, drama, stage play, piece

I am determined to tear down the flaunting lie with which THESPIS has so long concealed her blushless face, and to show the deluded public the cothurnus bespattered, and the sock and buskin draggled in the mire.

When the square of the town was reached, the theatre was stopped like the ancient car of Thespis, and the actors treated the people to a few comical drolleries in imitation of Aristophanes.

Aridaeus, a beautiful Youth of Epirus, in Love with Praxinoe, the Wife of Thespis, escaped without Damage, saving only that two of his Fore-Teeth were struck out and his Nose a little flatted.

Father of the Greek Drama, Thespis (B.C. sixth century).

A Shakspeare Club, for sustaining the drama, consisting of 80 members, who subscribe a guinea per annum, once a-year bespeak a play, and partake of a dinner, to which the sons of Thespis are invited.

Thespis, the first professor of our art, At country wakes sung ballads from a cart.

To prove this true, if Latin be no trespass, "Dicitur et plaustris vexisse poemata Thespis.

[Footnote 55: 'Thespis:' the inventor of tragedy.

What cared Mr. Rich for Thespis or for art?

A crowd soon gathered, and despite the indignant cries of the master-pavior, who declared he was never more sane, this son of Thespis was tied hand and foot, and carried home in triumph with a howling mob for attendants.

Horace expresses himself thus: "Thespis is said to have been the first inventor of a species of tragedy, in which he carried about, in carts, players smeared with the dregs of wine, of whom some sung and others declaimed."

This was the first attempt, both of tragedy and comedy; for Thespis made use only of one speaker, without the least appearance of dialogue.

That comedy, which Horace calls the ancient, and which, according to his account, was after Eschylus, retained something of its original state, and of the licentiousness which it practised, while it was yet without regularity, and uttered loose jokes and abuse upon the passers-by from the cart of Thespis.

Thespis made a single actor play before the people; this was the beginning of theatrical shows.

Thespis: ritual myth and drama in the ancient Near East.

Thespis: ritual myth and drama in the ancient Near East.

What a fine president would Munden have been of the Garrick Club, the members of which probably know as much about Garrick as they care about Thespis.

Aridaeus, a beautiful Youth of Epirus, in Love with Praxinoe, the Wife of Thespis, escaped without Damage, saving only that two of his Fore-Teeth were struck out and his Nose a little flatted.

It sat on the car of Thespis, like a croaking raven, and flapped its black, dregs-besmeared wings; over Iceland's minstrel-harp glided the swan's red, sounding bill.

But let us remember that when Thespis spoke from his car, the world had also wise men.

THESPIS, the father of Greek tragedy, hence Thespian art for the drama.

Thespis had introduced the first actor, who, in the pauses of the choral song, related in monologue the adventures of the god or engaged in dialogue with the leader of the chorus.