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 1 VI   | depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of
 2 XI   |   action, such as death on the stage, bodily agony, wounds, and
 3 XII  |       songs of actors from the stage and the Commoi.~The Prologue
 4 XIII |     worse. The practice of the stage bears out our view. At first
 5 XIII |      best proof is that on the stage and in dramatic competition,
 6 XIII | Orestes and Aegisthus—quit the stage as friends at the close,
 7 XVII |      see the situation. On the stage, however, the Piece failed,
 8 XVIII|       with poor success on the stage. Even Agathon has been known
 9 XXIV | ourselves to the action on the stage and the part taken by the
10 XXIV |    makes tragedies fail on the stage.~As for the meter, the heroic
11 XXIV |   ludicrous if placed upon the stage—the Greeks standing still