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The rest of his career was triumph upon triumph . By the king's favor he inherited Richelieu's beautiful little theatre in what was now called the Palais Royal . In time his company supplanted the Hôtel de Bourgogne as the King's Troupe ...
The rest of his career was triumph upon triumph . By the king's favor he inherited Richelieu's beautiful little theatre in what was now called the Palais Royal . In time his company supplanted the Hôtel de Bourgogne as the King's Troupe ...
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number so many that they exceed eighteen hundred sheets of paper ( not to be confused with the eighteen hundred plays written by Lope ; Cervantes wrote this in Lope's mid - career ) ; and what is most wonderful of all that can be said ...
number so many that they exceed eighteen hundred sheets of paper ( not to be confused with the eighteen hundred plays written by Lope ; Cervantes wrote this in Lope's mid - career ) ; and what is most wonderful of all that can be said ...
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He was not happy in this career , for all his efforts to adapt himself to it . He had a habit of writing in his spare time and it soon developed that this interfered with his duties . He was ordered curtly to cease his literary ...
He was not happy in this career , for all his efforts to adapt himself to it . He had a habit of writing in his spare time and it soon developed that this interfered with his duties . He was ordered curtly to cease his literary ...
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Contents
How Drama Was Born | 1 |
The Theatre of Greece | 6 |
Reconstruction of Theatre of Dionysus at Athens | 14 |
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