ABSTRACT
It may seenl bold, even reckless, to suggcst that good scholars and sensitive critics have rnissed a point of tho first importance both in Greek drama and in at least oue classical English play; nevertheless I think tha t this is the case, and there may be a very good explanation. N either today nor for some centuries past have we been in illinlediate and imaginative contact with a religious culture-with its habits of mind, its natural means of expression.
