Euripides is the key dramatist for her argument.
The wife of an evacuated dramatist is standing outside their building when a refugee approaches.
It encompasses critics and musicians while it excludes writers, painters, and dramatists.
Noting that competition for aid would be more fierce, the dramatists prepared themselves for some difficult times.
Rather, music played a minor role, the dramatist maintaining full control by calling in musicians only for certain numbers - after the script had been completed.
Yet there are precedents of dramatists benefiting from apprenticeships writing brief, non-realistic one-act plays.
Perhaps it is time that is wanting, in that dramatists are working under undue pressure to create instant culture for an impatient new nation.
However, there is no evidence that the fifth-century dramatists imparted lines, gestures, and choreography to performers by any means other than personal demonstration.
