…time. Thus we see the effect of these elements constituting the legitimate factors of drama as represented in the plays of Sophocles and the other great Greek playwrights. So the playwrights wrote only because time created drama. And without the time quality…

…have not changed the essential picture of human life to any marked degree. Undoubtedly, we will for long be emetic to Sophocles, Empedocles, and men of that nature. We will have Aristophanes, we will have the great playwrights, the great poets, the great…