I'll be honest here, I did not know the answer off the top of my head!
So, I consulted randolphcollege.edu and found this:
"Twenty-five hundred years ago, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripedes, and Aristophanes wrote their plays in verse for an annual five- or six-day spring festival of dramatic competition called the Great (or City) Dionysia and dedicated to Dionysus. Three tragedians competed at the festival, each presenting three tragedies and a satyr play* (a tetralogy) over the course of a day; five comedians each presented one play on the last day of the festival.
The monkeys paw ... // Mr.white clearly behaves foolishly throughout the story ,as he continues to ignore advice form mayjor Morris and Mrs white abut the use of the monkeys paw
