Toward a new theatre history of Dionysus.(Critical essay) Theatre History Studies | January 1, 2006| | COPYRIGHT 2006 Mid-America Theatre Association. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

For historians of the Western theatre, The Bacchae tells a peculiarly fecund tale. Compressed into its 1,394 lines is the origin story of our object of study--or, to put a finer point on it, in its short traffic of the stage the vexed conditions of theatre's civic foundation are played out. It follows that this tragedy cries out for the affixation of prefixes: The Bacchae has been canonized as ur-drama and metatheatre; (1) it comes down to us as the masterwork whose master narrative shapes the drama into an art form that is not just culturally meaningful but socially ...

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