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... popular tradition of these per- formances that lingered to revive , one day , as we shall see , in the commedia dell ... popular , a few more permanent stages were built . Occasionally Rome came under the sway of men who sternly ...
... popular tradition of these per- formances that lingered to revive , one day , as we shall see , in the commedia dell ... popular , a few more permanent stages were built . Occasionally Rome came under the sway of men who sternly ...
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... POPULAR COMEDY In the popular comedy , known as the commedia dell ' arte , lay the true theatrical genius of the period . The commedia began truly to flourish around 1560. With the Renaissance well under way the thought of the period ...
... POPULAR COMEDY In the popular comedy , known as the commedia dell ' arte , lay the true theatrical genius of the period . The commedia began truly to flourish around 1560. With the Renaissance well under way the thought of the period ...
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... popular in their time . They provided " vehicles " for the flashy stage personalities of their period . Both of them , but particu- larly Scribe , have come to be more widely represented by the operas woven around their plays than by ...
... popular in their time . They provided " vehicles " for the flashy stage personalities of their period . Both of them , but particu- larly Scribe , have come to be more widely represented by the operas woven around their plays than by ...
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