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Contents Introduction: The Search for Origins ........................ 1 Chapter 1. Nostalgia and Drama ............................ 12 Chapter 2. Scripted Speech ................................ 42 Chapter 3. The Theatrical Body ............................. 99 Chapter 4. The Theater of Tyranny ......................... 144 Chapter 5. The Theater of Dionysus ........................ 192 Epilogue: The End of Nostalgia ............................. 245 Bibliography .............................................. 251 Index Locorum ........................................... 267 General Index 273 ...

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