Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Origin of the English Drama
In ancient Greece the firfi plays began with Hymns to the praife of Bacchus, to which was afterwards added a kind of Dialogue, reprefenting fome exploit or adven ture of that deity: and, indeed, in all nations the firfi: Players would naturally chufe a fubjeét taken from the popular Religion, as being moi't obvious and familiar to the minds of their auditors, mol't generally interef'ting, and therefore molt likely to engage their attention.
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