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... comic tricks as suspending Socrates in a basket , they used cranes . Deus ex machina , or “ god from the machine , " was the term for these crane - lowered deities whose function was often to impose divine order on the tangled affairs ...
... comic tricks as suspending Socrates in a basket , they used cranes . Deus ex machina , or “ god from the machine , " was the term for these crane - lowered deities whose function was often to impose divine order on the tangled affairs ...
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... comic routines that are still with us with superficial changes of costume , language , and topical reference . Sometimes the changes are not even very great . In 1962 a musical comedy opened on Broadway called A Funny Thing Happened on ...
... comic routines that are still with us with superficial changes of costume , language , and topical reference . Sometimes the changes are not even very great . In 1962 a musical comedy opened on Broadway called A Funny Thing Happened on ...
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... comic strip . One of the oldest " funny paper " features still goes on , The Katzenjammer Kids , or sometimes The Captain and the Kids . Under his low German coloration the Captain is a blend of Pantalone and Capitano Spavento in one ...
... comic strip . One of the oldest " funny paper " features still goes on , The Katzenjammer Kids , or sometimes The Captain and the Kids . Under his low German coloration the Captain is a blend of Pantalone and Capitano Spavento in one ...
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How Drama Was Born | 1 |
The Theatre of Greece | 6 |
Roman Spectacle | 33 |
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