Thespis
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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Thespis had got loose and was running wild all over Scarsdale.
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
That’s when Thespis is believed to have won the prize for tragedy at the annual festival of Dionysus in Athens.
From New York Times • Feb. 20, 2015
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
Thespis, a native of Icaria, first gave to tragedy its dramatic character, in the time of Pisistratus, B.C.
From Ancient States and Empires by Lord, John
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