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... coming change can be seen in the ruins of the greatest theatre of Greece , the Theatre of Dionysus at Athens . We don't really know how much painted scenery the Greeks may have used . Probably the formal background of the skene usually ...
... coming change can be seen in the ruins of the greatest theatre of Greece , the Theatre of Dionysus at Athens . We don't really know how much painted scenery the Greeks may have used . Probably the formal background of the skene usually ...
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... coming and going of the members of the audience . No one would think of leaving in the middle of Our Town , or of coming late . We must not suppose the Chinese theatre to be dead , to- day , just because its conventions have changed so ...
... coming and going of the members of the audience . No one would think of leaving in the middle of Our Town , or of coming late . We must not suppose the Chinese theatre to be dead , to- day , just because its conventions have changed so ...
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... coming and going , coming and going One night , two nights , three nights , Ten nights ( and this was harvest night ) . I never saw her , yet I traveled ; Faithful as the cock who marks each day the dawn , I carved my marks on the bench ...
... coming and going , coming and going One night , two nights , three nights , Ten nights ( and this was harvest night ) . I never saw her , yet I traveled ; Faithful as the cock who marks each day the dawn , I carved my marks on the bench ...
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