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Character
Gender
Either Gender
Playing Age
Adult
Style
Dramatic
Act/Scene
1
Time & Place
A thicket, Ancient Greece
Length
Long
Time Period
Classical
Show Type
Play
Age Guidance
Youth (Y)/General Audiences (G)
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Context
The Leader of the Chorus - one of the many birds
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Weak mortals, chained to the earth, creatures
of clay as frail as the foliage of the woods, you unfortunate race,
whose life is but darkness, as unreal as a shadow, the illusion of
a dream, hearken to us, who are immortal beings, ethereal, ever
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