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... close to the lives of its people . The Noh represents the height of what we call decadence . This means that the emphasis is entirely on detail , and on surface polish rather than on the deep , underlying relation the drama might have ...
... close to the lives of its people . The Noh represents the height of what we call decadence . This means that the emphasis is entirely on detail , and on surface polish rather than on the deep , underlying relation the drama might have ...
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... close enough to barbarism to observe the age - old primitive rites of spring . May dances and other spring festivals , in the full pagan tradition , were annual events in many places . But there was no sign or shred of anything that ...
... close enough to barbarism to observe the age - old primitive rites of spring . May dances and other spring festivals , in the full pagan tradition , were annual events in many places . But there was no sign or shred of anything that ...
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... the American theatre at the close of the World War , with the founding of the little Prov- incetown Theatre , on Macdougall Street , in New York's Greenwich Village . The group had begun its activities as From the Civil War to Today 253.
... the American theatre at the close of the World War , with the founding of the little Prov- incetown Theatre , on Macdougall Street , in New York's Greenwich Village . The group had begun its activities as From the Civil War to Today 253.
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