The Playhouse and the Play: And Other Addresses Concerning the Theatre and Democracy in America |
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Page 74
... beautiful idols of fauns and Grecian deities , and smashed the images of stained- glass saints , long since looked upon the living images of the playhouse with suspicion , and shattered the earlier ideals of play and play- ers with ...
... beautiful idols of fauns and Grecian deities , and smashed the images of stained- glass saints , long since looked upon the living images of the playhouse with suspicion , and shattered the earlier ideals of play and play- ers with ...
Page 119
... beautiful , and since all those things which are not yet are necessary for the embodiment of that vision , of course , therefore , we will create them . and those things shall be . - Patience , once more . A day a decade is not destiny ...
... beautiful , and since all those things which are not yet are necessary for the embodiment of that vision , of course , therefore , we will create them . and those things shall be . - Patience , once more . A day a decade is not destiny ...
Page 165
... beautiful in- stincts which are potential in it , and , catered instead to the petty and ignoble instincts which are actual in it , that our dramatists have expressed so little of lasting service to the public . Yet if we are to uphold ...
... beautiful in- stincts which are potential in it , and , catered instead to the petty and ignoble instincts which are actual in it , that our dramatists have expressed so little of lasting service to the public . Yet if we are to uphold ...
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