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    It is not the case that Shakespeare's drama was necessarily different from Sophocles' drama because the historical, political, religious, and cultural conditions Shakespeare inhabited had fundamentally changed from those of ancient Greece.

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    • 1.Drama must truthfully represent the world available to the dramatist.
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    • 2.The Greek world of view, customs, republican politics, heroic traditions, religion, music, and expression changed substantially by Shakespeare's time.
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    • 3.Shakespeare, unlike the French classicists, was committed to representing his own world truthfully rather than imitating Greek forms artificially.
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