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In our imagined prehistoric scene we were witnesses to a great event : the birth of drama . The world's whole storehouse of drama springs from this ancient source of men seeking in their superstitious fear to understand something of the ...
In our imagined prehistoric scene we were witnesses to a great event : the birth of drama . The world's whole storehouse of drama springs from this ancient source of men seeking in their superstitious fear to understand something of the ...
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tion and error had crept into the world to provide the working materials for drama . The All - Father , Brahma , was approached by the other gods , who asked him to create a new art which should combine in itself all the other arts .
tion and error had crept into the world to provide the working materials for drama . The All - Father , Brahma , was approached by the other gods , who asked him to create a new art which should combine in itself all the other arts .
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Pastoral dramas were the principal entertainment in the court theatres . Derived from Greek mythology ... Different as the backgrounds are , they had something in common with the Hindu idyllic drama . They were pretty enough but did not ...
Pastoral dramas were the principal entertainment in the court theatres . Derived from Greek mythology ... Different as the backgrounds are , they had something in common with the Hindu idyllic drama . They were pretty enough but did not ...
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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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