The Sanskrit Drama in its Origin, Development, Theory & Practice c18.12
The Sanskrit Drama in its Origin, Development, Theory & Practice c18.12
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² Greek tragedy progressively reduced the lyric element in the drama, in harmony with the rhetorical trend of the Greek intellect, and approximated in language to ordinary speech; Aristotle, *Poetics*, 1450 *b* 9; *Rhetoric*, iii. 1 and 2; Haigh, *The Tragic Drama of the Greeks*, ch. vi, § 3.