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Page 19
... important . In the same way , any one of us , attending a Passion Play , is thoroughly familiar with the full meaning of the story no matter how sketchily it may be treated . We get an inkling of the power of the theatre when we see ...
... important . In the same way , any one of us , attending a Passion Play , is thoroughly familiar with the full meaning of the story no matter how sketchily it may be treated . We get an inkling of the power of the theatre when we see ...
Page 97
... important literary figures in the Renaissance Court drama were Ludovico Ariosto , Pietro Aretino , Niccolò Machiavelli , and Giovanni Boccaccio . They are all better known for work in other fields of literature . Some of them were great ...
... important literary figures in the Renaissance Court drama were Ludovico Ariosto , Pietro Aretino , Niccolò Machiavelli , and Giovanni Boccaccio . They are all better known for work in other fields of literature . Some of them were great ...
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... importance to the Spanish theatre , was Pedro Calderón de la Barca . He was the last of the important playwrights of the Spanish Thea- tre's Golden Age , and it was appropriate that he should have been born at the turn of the new ...
... importance to the Spanish theatre , was Pedro Calderón de la Barca . He was the last of the important playwrights of the Spanish Thea- tre's Golden Age , and it was appropriate that he should have been born at the turn of the new ...
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