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The action was carried only to the point immediately before the end , as a rule , and the final outcome was explained by the Epilogue who then asked the audience for applause in a manner which has perhaps been carried to its height ...
The action was carried only to the point immediately before the end , as a rule , and the final outcome was explained by the Epilogue who then asked the audience for applause in a manner which has perhaps been carried to its height ...
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... actor might have to fight a duel with an imaginary opponent , using imaginary weapons , fall dead , then rise and walk off the stage in such a manner that the audience would know his body is being carried away by four bearers .
... actor might have to fight a duel with an imaginary opponent , using imaginary weapons , fall dead , then rise and walk off the stage in such a manner that the audience would know his body is being carried away by four bearers .
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In the third voyage of Gulliver's Travels , on the island of Laputa which floats in the air , the learned men all carry bladders ; they are so absorbed in their own thoughts that if one should wish to communicate with another he must ...
In the third voyage of Gulliver's Travels , on the island of Laputa which floats in the air , the learned men all carry bladders ; they are so absorbed in their own thoughts that if one should wish to communicate with another he must ...
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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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