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	Thespis - Phantis
		Thespis of Icaria (6th century BC) is claimed to be the first person ever to appear on stage as an actor in a play although the reality is undoubtedly more complex.
		Thespis supposedly innovated a new style in which one singer or actor performed the words of individual characters in the stories, distinguishing between the characters with the aid of different masks.
		Thespis is, however, the first known actor in written plays, as opposed to improvised or orally transmitted plays.
	wiki.phantis.com /index.php/Thespis (314 words)

	Actor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Prior to Thespis' act, stories were told in song and dance and in third person narrative, but no one had assumed the role of a character in a story.
		Theatrical myth to this day maintains that Thespis exists as a mischievous spirit, and disasters in the theatre are sometimes blamed on his ghostly intervention.
		Women sometimes play the roles of prepubescent boys, because in some regards a woman has a closer resemblance to a boy than does a man. The role of Peter Pan, for example, is traditionally played by a woman.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Actor (1157 words)

	Greek Theater
		This is Thespis, who first moulded tragic song, inventing new joys for his villagers, when Bacchus led the wine-smeared (?) chorus, for which a goat was the prize (?) and a basket of Attic figs was a prize too.
		The unknown poetry of the tragic Muse Thespis is said to have discovered and to have carried poems on wagons, which they sang and acted, their faces smeared with wine-lees.
		Plays were funded by the polis, and always presented in competition with other plays, and were voted either the first, second, or third (last) place.
	academic.reed.edu /humanities/110Tech/Theater.html (3005 words)

	History Of The Mask (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
		In plays dramatizing portions of the Old and New Testaments, grotesques of all sorts, such as devils, demons, dragons, and personifications of the seven deadly sins, were brought to stage life by the use of masks.
		Constructed of papier-mâché, the masks of the mystery plays were evidently marvels of ingenuity and craftsmanship, being made to articulate and to belch fire and smoke from hidden contrivances.
		A play for exorcising demons called the “Dance of the Red Tiger Devil” is performed at fixed seasons of the year exclusively by the priests or lamas wearing awe-inspiring masks of deities and demons.
	www.anymask.com /historyofmask.html (6323 words)

	Classics Latin Greek Teaching Aids.
		The earliest plays that we still have today were performed by the chorus and just two actors.
		Thespis invented the idea of an actor to introduce a play, and help the chorus tell the story, by speaking with the chorus leader.
		We know that Thespis won the prize in the very first drama competition, which was held in Athens in about 534 BC.
	www.parsonsd.co.uk /theatre/actors.php (275 words)

	Fruition by Jason Robert Bell
		Thespis, who lived in ancient Greece, is believed to have been the first playwright to introduce an actor, independent of the chorus, who delivered monologues and also engaged in dialogues with the leader of the chorus.
		Thespis is also said to have introduced the use of pigments and masks to disguise the performers.
		Merrick becomes their all-to-willing enforcer, playing his harmless act during the day, but at night leaping about the rooftops of London, and elsewhere, brutally dispatching witches, alchemists, vampires, werewolves, golems, and leprechauns, all of whom are quite benign.
	www.tetragrammatron.com /fruition.html (12486 words)

	List of Classical Writers: THE TRAGIC POETS 1
		This was twelve, years after the first appearance of Thespis in the tragic contests; and it is therefore not improbable that Choerilus had Thespis for an antagonist.
		The son of Polyphradmon (or, according to others, of Minyras), an Athenian, was one of the poets to whom the invention of tragedy is ascribed: he is said to have been the disciple of Thespis.
		We may infer from the language of Suidas that the play which gained the prize was on the subject of Oedipus.
	www.theoi.com /Text/ListTragedians.html (4516 words)

	Thespis Journal: The 82nd Carnival of Education
		Thespis is said to have introduced the first featured actor into dramatic performances which previously were presented exclusively by the chorus.
		Thespis Journal is proud to present education articles from a panoramic view across the horizon of teaching and learning.
		You might want to play some music from Phantom of the Opera, Annie, Gypsy, Hairspray, or even Wicked as accompaniment for your trip to the Great White Way.
	thespisjournal.blogspot.com /2006/08/82nd-carnival-of-education.html (1639 words)

	Recent Ratings and Comments
		Note that any CV whose rules are lost would serve as Thespis...
		I was teaching my mother how to play chess and this is a ver...
		I have played both megachess and megabug as a student of Mr.
	www.chessvariants.com /ratings-tbd.html (3519 words)

	Actor - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		A female actor may be known as an actress, although some prefer the term "actor", using it as a gender-neutral term.
		In reverence to Thespis, actors are formally referred to as thespians.
		Women actors sometimes play the roles of prepubescent boys, because in some regards a woman has a closer resemblance to a boy than does a man. The role of Peter Pan, for example, is traditionally played by a woman.
	www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/a/c/t/Actor.html (975 words)

	(hyper)textuality.org
		Since it's drawing from a pool of lexia, the text itself must be compelling or the reader starts playing it like a game because the conditions become the focus of reading.
		At this point the people at the table wanted a way to see that possibility, a way to communicate loss ("cards you'll never see are..." or "this link has precluded you from...".
		One interface for this might be a sort of possibility graph-- as you play cards your hand grows, shrinks, and eventually dries up.
	www.textuality.org /archive/2004/10/cardsharkandthes.html (471 words)

	(hyper)textuality.org
		What structures the story is that lexia have constraints on when they may be played or read.
		Certain plays present the prerequisites for others, or represent an event which makes other plays impossible.
		When all goes well, what you end up with is a game that resembles a play written by committee in some wonderfully ridiculous ways, with players scheming and collaborating to lay out sequences of scenes which move toward their often contradictory endings.
	www.textuality.org /archive/2006/07/hamlet.html (644 words)

	DR-Glossary
		The plays are not written merely to illustrate the theory, and the theory can only partially explain what happens in the plays.
		If Brecht's plays do seem strange to us, it is perhaps because we are accustomed to the conventions of the "theater of illusion." The basic convention of this theater is that what we are watching on the stage is life itself.
		The play deals with a single action, is limited in the range of time and space it covers, and each scene is important only for what it contributes to the whole.
	www.fb10.uni-bremen.de /anglistik/kerkhoff/ContempDrama/DR-Glossary.htm (5834 words)

	Performing Arts Timeline
		534 B.C. Thespis wins the first public contest for tragic poets in Greece, and the term thespian derives from his name.
		The morality play touches on large contemporary issues with moral overtones and describes the lives of everyday people facing temptation.
		Mark Morris establishes the Mark Morris Dance Group in New York and is widely received as the most promising modern-dance choreographer of his generation.
	www.infoplease.com /ipea/A0153763.html (1707 words)

	Thespis Summary
		Thespis of Icaria(6th century BCE) is claimed to be the first person ever to appear on stage as an actor in a play although the reality is undoubtedly more complex.
		In other sources, he is said to have introduced the first actor in addition to the choru...
		In the following excerpt, Else discusses the significance of Thespis's name, credits him with being the originator of a new genre, explains his choice of meter, comments on how he was influenced by Solon and Homer, and explores the techniques he used to gain the sympathy of the common man.
	www.bookrags.com /Thespis (223 words)

	Angel Station (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
		They start by playing water: they beat water with their hands, they drip water from cupped hands, they pour water from bowls and collanders.
		Jupiter descends in a literal deus ex machina, convinces Platée he’s in love with her, and the rest of the play is a series of parodic celebrations of the fake nuptials.
		The entire production is a celebration of the series of vicious, cruel pranks played on Platée, whose only sin is to be homely and a bit over-optimistic about her prospects for love.
	walterjonwilliams.blogspot.com (2464 words)

	Thespis - MIDI Files
		These MIDI files are songs from the Gilbert and Sullivan opera Thespis, which was first produced at the Gaiety Theatre, London, on December 26, 1871.
		Most of the music from this opera has been lost.
		Click on the name of the piece to play the MIDI file.
	math.boisestate.edu /gas/thespis/html/thespis_midi.html (261 words)

	List of Articles
		Vogue /June 1978: The Man Who Plays The King (Lucy Hughes-Hallett).
		Sunday Times Magazine /11/1/81: He that plays the king (Mark Amory).
		London stage giant Alan Howard shelves Shakespeare to play a Nazi for the 'Good' of Broadway (Jim Jerome).
	www.picks.plus.com /howard/articles.htm (738 words)

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