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... century a device called the Interlude was intro- duced . As the name suggests , interludes were short comic sketches inserted between acts , or between one morality play and another . Interludes were a sign of the transition from the ...
... century a device called the Interlude was intro- duced . As the name suggests , interludes were short comic sketches inserted between acts , or between one morality play and another . Interludes were a sign of the transition from the ...
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... century , which found an early form in the Poema del Cid of the twelfth century , and many works after it . A lavish and popular motion picture was made from this ancient story in recent years . Corneille's highly formalized poetic ...
... century , which found an early form in the Poema del Cid of the twelfth century , and many works after it . A lavish and popular motion picture was made from this ancient story in recent years . Corneille's highly formalized poetic ...
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... century in America presents a theatrical panorama getting hopelessly beyond our ability to keep up with its details . New playwrights began to bring our drama step by step closer to the present - day standard in which American drama is ...
... century in America presents a theatrical panorama getting hopelessly beyond our ability to keep up with its details . New playwrights began to bring our drama step by step closer to the present - day standard in which American drama is ...
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How Drama Was Born | 1 |
The Theatre of Greece | 6 |
Roman Spectacle | 33 |
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