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'Wrestling to Rasslin'

Ancient sport to American Spectacle

While we have thus far examined the way professional wrestling parallels the morality play, allegory and Noh Drama in establishing its thematic design and its staging, it is the parallel between wrestling and the Greek and Roman theatre that provides the basic techniques of staging of the sport.  The parallel is substantial and in large part explained because of the similarity of problems of a vast audience and large distances between audience and stage that professional wrestling and Greek and Roman drama share.

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