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It is simply and honestly rooted in one of the profound and universal experiences common to all men , to " every man " : the confrontation with Death and the mysteries of the hereafter . At the opening of the play , God , discouraged by ...
It is simply and honestly rooted in one of the profound and universal experiences common to all men , to " every man " : the confrontation with Death and the mysteries of the hereafter . At the opening of the play , God , discouraged by ...
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One of the best of them is his brief Death in the Tree , which is like an abbreviated morality play . The characters are a Hermit , a Bully , a Cynic , and a Coward . A Hermit chances to discover a sack of gold coins in the hollow of a ...
One of the best of them is his brief Death in the Tree , which is like an abbreviated morality play . The characters are a Hermit , a Bully , a Cynic , and a Coward . A Hermit chances to discover a sack of gold coins in the hollow of a ...
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A lamentably early death cut off a talent of great promise in Georg Büchner , who was born in 1813 and died at the age of twenty - four . Because he took part in the revolutionary movements that were beginning to trouble Germany he had ...
A lamentably early death cut off a talent of great promise in Georg Büchner , who was born in 1813 and died at the age of twenty - four . Because he took part in the revolutionary movements that were beginning to trouble Germany he had ...
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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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