GREEK DRAMA.
| ADDRESS BY PROFESSOR SHELLEY. “Greek Drama” w<as t?ie subject of an address delivered by Professor J. Shelley at- a meeting of the Classical Association at Canterbury College last evening, over which Mr ‘F. E. Bevan Brown presided. a The speaker dealt with the recognised
| steps in the origin and development of I drama and the play and its early ehari act-eristics The stage was not coni structed as tc-day. It was any space where dancing could be conducted and the audience sat. in a semi-circle around the performers. The expression of the individual was true drama, and drama arose from the separation of the individual from the herd. Most of the present theories on the origin of the play were unsatisfactory. The speaker was accorded a hearty vote of thanks for his address on the ; motion- ol Dr Broad lie ad, seconded bv j Professor J. Stewart.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17348, 13 May 1924, Page 6
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