A Pageant of the Theatre |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 83
Page 20
Edmund Fuller. mysterious , dreadful element called Fate , play an important rôle we must not make the mistake of supposing that the plays are fatalistic , or that the characters never have a chance . When- ever , in the Greek plays ...
Edmund Fuller. mysterious , dreadful element called Fate , play an important rôle we must not make the mistake of supposing that the plays are fatalistic , or that the characters never have a chance . When- ever , in the Greek plays ...
Page 121
... plays , even including some of the lesser works of Shakespeare which do not appear to be the genuine article in their entirety . The Elizabethan theatre was a theatre of repertory . Plays were not produced for a long run , then allowed ...
... plays , even including some of the lesser works of Shakespeare which do not appear to be the genuine article in their entirety . The Elizabethan theatre was a theatre of repertory . Plays were not produced for a long run , then allowed ...
Page 159
... Plays , and an autobiographical novel , Dorotea . His plays ranged broadly in subject matter and style . He was skilled in many ingenious forms of verse . He wrote trag- edies , comedies , tragi - comedies , and religious plays . A ...
... Plays , and an autobiographical novel , Dorotea . His plays ranged broadly in subject matter and style . He was skilled in many ingenious forms of verse . He wrote trag- edies , comedies , tragi - comedies , and religious plays . A ...
Contents
Spectacular Rome | 27 |
The Theatres of China Japan | 43 |
FIVE | 68 |
Copyright | |
6 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
acting actor actress Aeschylus American theatre Arnolphe audience became began born brilliant called career century characters Chinese chorus Church comedy commedia court Cyrano Cyrano de Bergerac death died Dionysus drama dramatist Dushyanta Elizabethan England English entertainment Euripides Europe Everyman famous father Faustus feudal flourished Fuente Ovejuna Garrick German gods greatest Greece Greek Guild Hindu honor Hôtel de Bourgogne Ibsen Kabuki King known later literary lives Lope de Vega Lope's Lord Marlowe Master-singers matter Mephistophilis modern Molière Moscow Art Theatre mystery Nathan never night opera Orgon performance period persons Plautus players plays playwright plot poet Polyneices popular priest produced religious Renaissance rôles Roman Rome Sachs SALADIN Sancho says scene SGANARELLE Shakespeare Shakuntala Shaw Spanish spirit stage story success talents Tartuffe Tello theatrical thing tion tradition tragedy Wagner wife writing wrote young