A Pageant of the Theatre |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 38
Page 14
... sometimes sang , sometimes chanted the story , accompanied by dances . One day , about 535 B.C. , a man named Thespis , of whom we know only that he had been a prominent leader of the chorus , thought up the idea of stepping out from ...
... sometimes sang , sometimes chanted the story , accompanied by dances . One day , about 535 B.C. , a man named Thespis , of whom we know only that he had been a prominent leader of the chorus , thought up the idea of stepping out from ...
Page 74
... sometimes broken by this weapon . The Church held in its hand the only universal means of discipline . Of course ... Sometime in the tenth century , at St. Gall in Switzer- land , those who attended Mass found something new added to the ...
... sometimes broken by this weapon . The Church held in its hand the only universal means of discipline . Of course ... Sometime in the tenth century , at St. Gall in Switzer- land , those who attended Mass found something new added to the ...
Page 107
... Sometimes they would ride high . Occasionally honors , jewels , or money would be lavished upon them by some patron . But at another time it was equally likely that they would be driven out of a town by some noble whose anger they had ...
... Sometimes they would ride high . Occasionally honors , jewels , or money would be lavished upon them by some patron . But at another time it was equally likely that they would be driven out of a town by some noble whose anger they had ...
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