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Show
Character
Gender
Male
Playing Age
Young Adult, Adult
Style
Dramatic
Act/Scene
Act 1, Scene 1
Time & Place
Thebes, Ancient Greece
Length
Long
Time Period
Classical
Show Type
Play
Age Guidance
Youth (Y)/General Audiences (G)
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Dionysus has come home to Thebes, the place of
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Lo! I am come to this land of Thebes, Dionysus, the son of Zeus, of whom on a day Semele, the daughter of Cadmus, was delivered by a flash of lightning. I have put off the god and taken human shape, and so present myself at Dirce’s springs and the
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