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THE TAIL WAGS THÉ DOG a Before we get on to the popular comedy , we should stop for a brief look at the Court theatres , the chief entertainment of the upper classes . In 1508 a man named Bernardino Prosperi wrote a letter to a friend ...
THE TAIL WAGS THÉ DOG a Before we get on to the popular comedy , we should stop for a brief look at the Court theatres , the chief entertainment of the upper classes . In 1508 a man named Bernardino Prosperi wrote a letter to a friend ...
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The poetry of the court plays was flowery and ponderous , in a warmed - over imitation of classic style . The acting was stiff and pompous . To liven things up , interludes and dances of a scandalous , if not downright immoral , nature ...
The poetry of the court plays was flowery and ponderous , in a warmed - over imitation of classic style . The acting was stiff and pompous . To liven things up , interludes and dances of a scandalous , if not downright immoral , nature ...
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PASTORAL DRAMA AND OPERA There was a special kind of Court entertainment , the pastoral drama . This was an extreme example of the lifelessness of Renaissance Court drama . It was effeminate and mawkishly sentimental .
PASTORAL DRAMA AND OPERA There was a special kind of Court entertainment , the pastoral drama . This was an extreme example of the lifelessness of Renaissance Court drama . It was effeminate and mawkishly sentimental .
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