It made the transitions between scenes, giving actors the chance to enter and leave the playing area, and even announced what characters those actors portrayed. ... In Greek tragedy the tragic situation, in which the characters find themselves, is always a situation of utmost conflict. Studying the plots of a number of Greek tragedies, we find variations of two basic tragic situations: either the fatal situation is brought about by the man's miscalculation of reality or the characters find themselves between two conflicting principles and are confronted with a choice, the results of which...

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