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A great storm burst upon the 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 ...
A great storm burst upon the 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 ...
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The Spanish theatre in its Golden Age , as they themselves considered 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 ...
The Spanish theatre in its Golden Age , as they themselves considered 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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He was the last of the important playwrights of the 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 ...
He was the last of the important playwrights of the 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 ...
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How Drama Was Born | 1 |
The Theatre of Greece | 6 |
Reconstruction of Theatre of Dionysus at Athens | 14 |
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