Word: thebauprima
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Dates: during 1886-1886
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...much more interesting production. The "Acharnians" lacks that strong human interest which a tragic story has in every age. Personal invective (like the attacks on Lamachus) must lose some point in the lapse of centuries when the attacked person has been well-nigh forgotten, while the sufferings of the Thebauprima are always affecting. Again, the "Acharnians" did not give the spectators that sense of being transported into another world which the "Oedipus" gave. In a word, the illusion was lacking. Perhaps this was in some measure due to the place where the play was produced, in a theatre...
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