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Perhaps this very night has seen the coming of the first thunderstorm of the new summer . All about us are fearsome and awe - inspiring manifestations of nature . What is the great fire that forks like a fiery tongue across the sky ?
Perhaps this very night has seen the coming of the first thunderstorm of the new summer . All about us are fearsome and awe - inspiring manifestations of nature . What is the great fire that forks like a fiery tongue across the sky ?
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The signs of this coming change can be seen in the ruins of the greatest theatre of Greece , the Theatre of Dionysus at Athens . We don't really know how much painted scenery the Greeks may have used . Probably the formal background of ...
The signs of this coming change can be seen in the ruins of the greatest theatre of Greece , the Theatre of Dionysus at Athens . We don't really know how much painted scenery the Greeks may have used . Probably the formal background of ...
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Some of his friends claimed to have seen him write five full length plays in two weeks . Some three or four hundred of these many plays survive today . Lope's contemporary , the great novelist Cervantes , called him “ the Monster of ...
Some of his friends claimed to have seen him write five full length plays in two weeks . Some three or four hundred of these many plays survive today . Lope's contemporary , the great novelist Cervantes , called him “ the Monster of ...
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