'Thespis' (1871) first brought him into partnership with Mr. Gilbert, a partnership which was further cemented by 'Trial by Jury'.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Opera A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory.] Reference

For the disciples of Thespis, Paris was a paradise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847] Reference

“Then you'll end the Thespis of Sulla's standing courts.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fortune's Favorites]

Thespis at Emu aspire — together with the framework of the scenes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ralph Rashleigh] Reference

The Actors Playhouse has never been my favorite downtown temple of Thespis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-08-01] Reference

Gaster finds further parallels in Egypt, Greece, and elsewhere in the Psalms (Thespis, 1950).    From Wordnik.com.  [MYTH IN BIBLICAL TIMES] Reference

Greece stood in need of the chariot of Thespis, France stands in need of the hackney-coach of Vade.    From Wordnik.com.  [Les Miserables] Reference

Old Brotherhood chapel, now the Thespis Rep Theatre, highbrow, harmless, one end; Portminster Lodge, the Palinode house, the other.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Work for the Undertaker]

Thespis (about 536 B.C.) is said to have introduced this idea of the dialogue; hence the term "Thespian" applied to the tragic drama.    From Wordnik.com.  [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference

We do not know the precise age of Mr. Baker of Covent Garden Theatre; nor are we aware if that celebrated son of Thespis is a married man.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cox's Diary] Reference

The Ancient Greek performer Thespis failed to make the cut despite his somewhat groundbreaking work, as did the considerably more alive Simon Russell Beale.    From Wordnik.com.  [Laurence Olivier, Judi Dench, Mark Rylance? Who is the greatest stage actor ever?] Reference

What is the barrow of Thespis beside the Olympian chariots?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations] Reference

Thespis is said to have brought in the stage for the performers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Outline of Universal History] Reference

Thespis made several alterations in it, which Horace describes after.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians and Grecians (Vol. 1 of 6)] Reference

Garden Theatre; nor are we aware if that celebrated son of Thespis is a married man.    From Wordnik.com.  [Burlesques] Reference

Above these are two busts on brackets, Thespis and Epicurus, or possibly Epicharmus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shakespearean Playhouses A History of English Theatres from the Beginnings to the Restoration] Reference

To say that he found, in the visible universe, a little wooden theatre of Thespis, a.    From Wordnik.com.  [Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers] Reference

"Perfectly," said Andre-Louis, dryly, and was thus committed to the service of Thespis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scaramouche] Reference

VI might have been used in the days of Thespis in a much cruder and less metaphorical sense.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poetics. English] Reference

Before Thespis tragedy consisted of no more than one person, who sung songs in honour of Bacchus.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Vol I, No. 2, February 1810] Reference

Thespis was the earliest known to us who took rudimentary tragedies from town to town in Attica.    From Wordnik.com.  [Initiation into Literature] Reference

Trial by Jury debuted in 1875, four years after Thespis, Gilbert and Sullivan's first work as a team.    From Wordnik.com.  [Opera Today] Reference

Then he would betake himself to that ravishing, radiant roadway devoted to Thespis, Thais, and Bacchus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sixes and Sevens] Reference

The alterations Thespis made in tragedy, gave room for Æschylus to make new and more considerable of his own.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians and Grecians (Vol. 1 of 6)] Reference

In the time of Pisistratus, Thespis (506 B.C.) first caused tragedy to become a drama, though a very simple one.    From Wordnik.com.  [Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities] Reference

Thus disappeared the fane once sacred to Thespis and Melpomene, its fun-loving votaries, as such, knew it no more.    From Wordnik.com.  [Picturesque Quebec : a sequel to Quebec past and present] Reference

After absorbing the delights of an hour's lounging in the principal hotels along Broadway, he passed up into the stronghold of Thespis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sixes and Sevens] Reference

In the drama of Thespis we find the satyric drama confounded with tragedy, and the persons of the chorus frequently representing satyrs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities] Reference

We have seen how a single actor was added to the chorus by Thespis, who caused him to represent in succession all the persons of the drama.    From Wordnik.com.  [Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities] Reference