Thespis
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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Thespis is not just thin-skinned; he can also be vengeful.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 24, 2016
She decided to submit her play to the Thespis Theater Festival in New York.
From Washington Post • Aug. 6, 2015
I assumed “the theater” had just been killing time since Thespis, waiting for me to arrive.
From New York Times • Apr. 26, 2012
Photograph: Tristram Kenton The Ancient Greek performer Thespis failed to make the cut despite his somewhat groundbreaking work, as did the considerably more alive Simon Russell Beale.
From The Guardian • Sep. 22, 2010
Solon could not much have approved such a trick, for when Thespis, a great actor of plays, came to p. 123Athens, Solon asked him if he were not ashamed to speak so many falsehoods.
From Aunt Charlotte's Stories of Greek History by Yonge, Charlotte Mary
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