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... Elizabethan per- formance was filled with explosions of fireworks and countless tricks of jugglery and sleight of hand . In the 1930's , under the auspices of the Federal Theatre Project , Orson Welles , himself in the role of Faustus ...
... Elizabethan per- formance was filled with explosions of fireworks and countless tricks of jugglery and sleight of hand . In the 1930's , under the auspices of the Federal Theatre Project , Orson Welles , himself in the role of Faustus ...
Page 121
... Elizabethan period , for all its many melodramatic excesses and faults . It held the stage well past the Elizabethan period . Samuel Pepys , in his famous diary , speaks of going to see Hiero- nimo Is Mad Again in 1668. He considered ...
... Elizabethan period , for all its many melodramatic excesses and faults . It held the stage well past the Elizabethan period . Samuel Pepys , in his famous diary , speaks of going to see Hiero- nimo Is Mad Again in 1668. He considered ...
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... Elizabethan times ; its standards were determined by a smaller and more uniform group . Cavalier taste had been influenced strongly by the time of exile in France . They brought back with them a taste for the French imitation of ...
... Elizabethan times ; its standards were determined by a smaller and more uniform group . Cavalier taste had been influenced strongly by the time of exile in France . They brought back with them a taste for the French imitation of ...
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How Drama Was Born | 1 |
The Theatre of Greece | 6 |
Roman Spectacle | 33 |
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