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... effects of thunder and lightning . There are seas of real water in which live fish swim . The Garden of Eden abounds with spring flowers . Trees are heavy with fruit , both real and artificial . A snake wriggles into this scene of ...
... effects of thunder and lightning . There are seas of real water in which live fish swim . The Garden of Eden abounds with spring flowers . Trees are heavy with fruit , both real and artificial . A snake wriggles into this scene of ...
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... effects . As we learn from a writer of the period who saw just such a performance of the play , ... indeed a man may ... effect this transaction . Alone in a grove , he performs mystic incantations within circles of smoke and fire . Then ...
... effects . As we learn from a writer of the period who saw just such a performance of the play , ... indeed a man may ... effect this transaction . Alone in a grove , he performs mystic incantations within circles of smoke and fire . Then ...
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... effect of his costume created a great stir and were said to have kept King George II awake all night by their ... effect . He had three of these , precisely timed , which he called his short pause , his long pause , and his grand pause ...
... effect of his costume created a great stir and were said to have kept King George II awake all night by their ... effect . He had three of these , precisely timed , which he called his short pause , his long pause , and his grand pause ...
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How Drama Was Born | 1 |
The Theatre of Greece | 6 |
Roman Spectacle | 33 |
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