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Yet entertainment was the last and once least important aspect of the theatre to those remote ancestors of man who brought it into being more centuries ago than we can count . It is a far cry from the savage campfire to today ...
Yet entertainment was the last and once least important aspect of the theatre to those remote ancestors of man who brought it into being more centuries ago than we can count . It is a far cry from the savage campfire to today ...
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The Emperor Claudius , fifth in the succession of Caesars , once staged a mimic battle on a large lake near Rome . When the slaves did not fight ferociously enough he ran stumbling along the shore shouting threats and orders at them .
The Emperor Claudius , fifth in the succession of Caesars , once staged a mimic battle on a large lake near Rome . When the slaves did not fight ferociously enough he ran stumbling along the shore shouting threats and orders at them .
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The court circle , upon coming into its own once more , launched into an unrestrained manner of living . Pleasure - seeking was the chief aim of their lives , as well as of the king's . All standards of decency and morality were broken ...
The court circle , upon coming into its own once more , launched into an unrestrained manner of living . Pleasure - seeking was the chief aim of their lives , as well as of the king's . All standards of decency and morality were broken ...
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