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... remained with man down to this rather stone - and - mortar age we live in . The real origins of Hindu drama appear to date back be- yond even the early stirrings of the Greek drama . The long from about the fourth to the ninth centuries ...
... remained with man down to this rather stone - and - mortar age we live in . The real origins of Hindu drama appear to date back be- yond even the early stirrings of the Greek drama . The long from about the fourth to the ninth centuries ...
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... remained some- thing of a stock actor in his splendor . His first major success was in the highly melodramatic play The Bells . His popular tour de force in the operatic rôle of Mathias , a character haunted and driven mad by the guilt ...
... remained some- thing of a stock actor in his splendor . His first major success was in the highly melodramatic play The Bells . His popular tour de force in the operatic rôle of Mathias , a character haunted and driven mad by the guilt ...
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... remained . The first play performed professionally in the city was The Conscious Lovers , a sickly - sentimental comedy by Sir Richard Steele . Flushed with the success of this northward move , The American Company next began to prepare ...
... remained . The first play performed professionally in the city was The Conscious Lovers , a sickly - sentimental comedy by Sir Richard Steele . Flushed with the success of this northward move , The American Company next began to prepare ...
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