The Frogs: Dialogue: “That Was Some Banquet!”

[DIONYSOS, spoken]
Well, that was some banquet! You dead certainly know how to live!

[PLUTO, spoken]
Yes, I thought I put together a pretty good group, didn't you?

[DIONYSOS, spoken]
Especially Shaw, he's so full of gravity of thought, and levity of expression!

[PLUTO, spoken]
Endlessly!

[DIONYSOS, spoken]
But that Bertolt Brecht...

[PLUTO, spoken]
A troublemaker

[DIONYSOS, spoken]
And noisy! Now, Pirandello

[PLUTO, spoken]
Isn't he something else? First he's something, then he's something else. But, did you get to meet Oscar Wilde?

[DIONYSOS, spoken]
Oh-ho-hoh yes, he-he-he's naughty, but nice. Ah, they were all wondеrful company. How we laughed! That Eugenе O'Neill is really funny

[PLUTO, spoken]
And he never used to be

[DIONYSOS, spoken]
Hm. And the dancing, it never stopped!

[PLUTO, spoken]
Yes, we do a lot of it down here

[DIONYSOS, spoken]
Why?

[PLUTO, spoken]
Well—

[DIONYSOS, spoken]
Ooh! No! This is a Greek play, let the chorus explain it