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Kabuki was at the height of its popularity and vigor in the early eighteenth century . Here the plays do not go on as interminably as in the Chinese theatre . We have managed to arrive a little early . As there is no curtain in this ...
Kabuki was at the height of its popularity and vigor in the early eighteenth century . Here the plays do not go on as interminably as in the Chinese theatre . We have managed to arrive a little early . As there is no curtain in this ...
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Early in the fifteenth century , well before nonreligious drama yet amounted to anything , the influential Brotherhood obtained a theatrical monopoly in Paris . They had a royal grant permitting them to control and claim the profits ...
Early in the fifteenth century , well before nonreligious drama yet amounted to anything , the influential Brotherhood obtained a theatrical monopoly in Paris . They had a royal grant permitting them to control and claim the profits ...
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The theatre in which Corneille launched his career was a converted indoor tennis court , as were many of the early theatres of France , except the Bourgogne . The shape of the courts , with their boxes for spectators , was easily ...
The theatre in which Corneille launched his career was a converted indoor tennis court , as were many of the early theatres of France , except the Bourgogne . The shape of the courts , with their boxes for spectators , was easily ...
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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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