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... followed and the high - tempered youth slew the older man , quite ignorant of who he was . Proceeding to Thebes , Oedipus delivered that city from a monster called the Sphinx which had been terrorizing the people . Hailed as the city's ...
... followed and the high - tempered youth slew the older man , quite ignorant of who he was . Proceeding to Thebes , Oedipus delivered that city from a monster called the Sphinx which had been terrorizing the people . Hailed as the city's ...
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... followed the serious Miss Sara Sampson with a charming and popular comedy , Minna von Barnhelm . Minna held the German stage for many years . In the meantime , Lessing was making another important contribution to the theatre . He had ...
... followed the serious Miss Sara Sampson with a charming and popular comedy , Minna von Barnhelm . Minna held the German stage for many years . In the meantime , Lessing was making another important contribution to the theatre . He had ...
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... followed by his still greater son , Edwin Booth , king of the American stage in his day , a tragic figure whose career was shadowed and whose life was haunted by the crime of his talented but unstable brother , the actor John Wilkes ...
... followed by his still greater son , Edwin Booth , king of the American stage in his day , a tragic figure whose career was shadowed and whose life was haunted by the crime of his talented but unstable brother , the actor John Wilkes ...
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How Drama Was Born | 1 |
The Theatre of Greece | 6 |
Roman Spectacle | 33 |
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