The Playhouse and the Play: And Other Addresses Concerning the Theatre and Democracy in America |
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... native bloom and growth of self - reliance which Emerson then predicted have since been evidenced , gradually but in- dubitably , through three generations of our American scholars , poets , and artists . Yet in one vast field of art ...
... native bloom and growth of self - reliance which Emerson then predicted have since been evidenced , gradually but in- dubitably , through three generations of our American scholars , poets , and artists . Yet in one vast field of art ...
Page 118
... native appeal and message , a new and nobler art of impersonation , and - above all- to administer and develop its vast function , a new theatrical institution , with basic liberty and permanent security for its growth . - Manifestly ...
... native appeal and message , a new and nobler art of impersonation , and - above all- to administer and develop its vast function , a new theatrical institution , with basic liberty and permanent security for its growth . - Manifestly ...
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... native drama and the New England period of our native literature in its beginnings . And in this con- nection I would suggest the following queries : If Nathaniel Hawthorne , in his own day , had not sufficiently ignored his ...
... native drama and the New England period of our native literature in its beginnings . And in this con- nection I would suggest the following queries : If Nathaniel Hawthorne , in his own day , had not sufficiently ignored his ...
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