Fictionalized Story of Shakespeare in Ancient Greece This time machine has taken

I find myself in ancient Greece, and I am fascinated by the opportunity to see the beginnings of the profession in which I have worked for so long. Much about this era is known to us kin my own time, but much is not. After all, not many of the plays from this period survive, and indeed we have only one complete cycle of three plays performed at one sitting in the Oresteia. This three-play pattern was the norm, but no other complete cycle survives (Kitto, 1964: 76). It would be interesting to see some of the other cycles that have not survived.

I will be able to bring back to my time a better understanding of the origins of drama, and perhaps I can find a few plots I can use as well. I have not written much about the ancient world except for a history (Julius Caesar) and a tragedy or two (Troilus and Cressida and Titus Andronicus). I know we have changed the drama since the time of the Greeks. Greek drama took place in an outdoor amphitheater, for one thing, while we have changed the location to indoor theaters (usually) behind a proscenium arch, a concept the Greeks did not have. My beloved Globe has such a structur

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even the audience for which it was written in the first place. All the productions I have ever seen or even ever imagined are quite different from the reality I see here today. The play I am seeing I recognize. It is Agamemnon, part of the Oresteia--I guess I won't be seeing a play unknown in my day after all. However, the play I am seeing is unknown in a way, since our view of the drama is so different from the view in this time. This is early Greek drama, and as yet there are only two characters on stage who speak at any given time. A third character will be added later by Sophocles. I suppose I could tell Aeschylus about this and show how it can be made to work. This would hurry up the process, but what would this accomplish? I might change history and lose the plays of Sophocles and Euripides. I would be happy to find new plays to take back to my own time, but I do not want to lose the power of these other dramatists through a foolish action. If I move ahead only a few years to the end of this century--and the time machine lets me do this--what do I find? Here I can examine the comedy of the period in the plays of Aristophanes, and I find that his comedies and mine have a lot in common, probably more than my trag
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Approximate Pages = 7 (250 words per page)