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Page 162
... Spanish fleet , sinking many ships , driving others aground , hurling them upon one another and tangling them . After the storm , the English fleet swept down upon the scattered remnants of the Armada and all but wiped it from the sea ...
... Spanish fleet , sinking many ships , driving others aground , hurling them upon one another and tangling them . After the storm , the English fleet swept down upon the scattered remnants of the Armada and all but wiped it from the sea ...
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... Spanish theatre in its Golden Age , as they themselves con- sidered this to be , shared the exuberance of the climactic peak of the country's history . Spain had liberated herself from a long bondage to the Moors and turned back the ...
... Spanish theatre in its Golden Age , as they themselves con- sidered this to be , shared the exuberance of the climactic peak of the country's history . Spain had liberated herself from a long bondage to the Moors and turned back the ...
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... Spanish theatre's great age and it was appropriate that he should have been born at the turn of the new century , in 1600. Unlike Lope , who had sprung from peasant stock , Calderón was of the nobility . His talents showed themselves at ...
... Spanish theatre's great age and it was appropriate that he should have been born at the turn of the new century , in 1600. Unlike Lope , who had sprung from peasant stock , Calderón was of the nobility . His talents showed themselves at ...
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How Drama Was Born | 1 |
The Theatre of Greece | 6 |
Roman Spectacle | 33 |
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