... Dionysus replied "Well, there's not going to be one in this one," (refers to the comic porter scene) there is a comic porter scene just before the false parados. However, Aristophanes just cannot stop being creative as he has a corpse coming alive for a short moment to make a deal with ... 4th speaking actor. In The Frogs, Aristophanes is so innovative that he actually "breaks the structure" of the Attic old comedy- he introduces parabasis before the agon, and thus agon becomes virtually the end of the play. Usually, you would have parabasis after the agon. Also, note how Aristophanes .....

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