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... practical and artistic reasons . For a practical matter the spectator was too far away from the actor to see natural facial expressions . The masks , exaggerated and set in conventional designs , were changed to suit the mood of a given ...
... practical and artistic reasons . For a practical matter the spectator was too far away from the actor to see natural facial expressions . The masks , exaggerated and set in conventional designs , were changed to suit the mood of a given ...
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... practical which made them great as a mili- tary power and gave them a government capable of holding together the sprawling bulk of their Empire . They had many virtues and encouraged high standards of citizenship and fam- ily ties . But ...
... practical which made them great as a mili- tary power and gave them a government capable of holding together the sprawling bulk of their Empire . They had many virtues and encouraged high standards of citizenship and fam- ily ties . But ...
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... practical . They used elab- orate costumes if they could afford them , and an innumerable number of tricks entailing fireworks , thunder and lightning machines , smoke and steam effects , and tricks performed by trap - doors , acrobatic ...
... practical . They used elab- orate costumes if they could afford them , and an innumerable number of tricks entailing fireworks , thunder and lightning machines , smoke and steam effects , and tricks performed by trap - doors , acrobatic ...
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