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... important acting company leased the Hôtel de Bourgogne in 1610 and began operations as The King's Play- ers , by royal permission . It was headed by an actor named Valleran Lécomte and largely supplied with plays by a skill- ful ...
... important acting company leased the Hôtel de Bourgogne in 1610 and began operations as The King's Play- ers , by royal permission . It was headed by an actor named Valleran Lécomte and largely supplied with plays by a skill- ful ...
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... importance to the Spanish theatre , was Pedro Calderón de la Barca . He was the last of the important playwrights of the Spanish Thea- tre's Golden Age , and it was appropriate that he should have been born at the turn of the new ...
... importance to the Spanish theatre , was Pedro Calderón de la Barca . He was the last of the important playwrights of the Spanish Thea- tre's Golden Age , and it was appropriate that he should have been born at the turn of the new ...
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... important things that Caro- lina Neuber did was to encourage the theatrical ambitions of a young man named Lessing , with whom a new day had ar- rived . Gotthold Ephraim Lessing was born in 1729. Although he might be called a man of ...
... important things that Caro- lina Neuber did was to encourage the theatrical ambitions of a young man named Lessing , with whom a new day had ar- rived . Gotthold Ephraim Lessing was born in 1729. Although he might be called a man of ...
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