Word for comedy/tragedy masks?

Steve Kl. stevekl at PANIX.COM
Tue Mar 19 20:12:31 UTC 2002


On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Paul McFedries wrote:

> Is there a word for that classic symbol of the theater, the comedy and
> tragedy masks?

"the masks of Thespis." -- that's what I learned them to be when I was
studying theatre.

Oddly, that returned *zero* Google hits. "Thespian masks" returned 50.

HTH.

-- Steve



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