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... dramatic style were much more complicated in India than even in the Japanese drama , just as the social system was more involved . In the critical judg- ment of the Hindu scholars there were twenty - eight impor- tant divisions of the drama ...
... dramatic style were much more complicated in India than even in the Japanese drama , just as the social system was more involved . In the critical judg- ment of the Hindu scholars there were twenty - eight impor- tant divisions of the drama ...
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... drama , " which simply means religious drama , or drama associated with the liturgy , the services of the Church . In story , the plays began to range far beyond the simple episode at the tomb . Nativities , or Christmas plays ...
... drama , " which simply means religious drama , or drama associated with the liturgy , the services of the Church . In story , the plays began to range far beyond the simple episode at the tomb . Nativities , or Christmas plays ...
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... DRAMA AND OPERA There was a special kind of Court entertainment , the pas- toral drama . This was an extreme example of the lifelessness of Renaissance Court drama . It was effeminate and mawkishly sentimental . The pastoral plays were ...
... DRAMA AND OPERA There was a special kind of Court entertainment , the pas- toral drama . This was an extreme example of the lifelessness of Renaissance Court drama . It was effeminate and mawkishly sentimental . The pastoral plays were ...
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