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... influence in the affairs of Rome and though he could scarcely help being blackened by some of the events of that dreadful time , he is credited with helping to restrain Nero , for a while , from the worst of excesses . The emperor was ...
... influence in the affairs of Rome and though he could scarcely help being blackened by some of the events of that dreadful time , he is credited with helping to restrain Nero , for a while , from the worst of excesses . The emperor was ...
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... influence of the commedia far - flung indeed . Shakespeare was writing when the comedy still flourished . No less than eight of his plays — not all of them comedies - have roots to some degree in the commedia dell ' arte and in the ...
... influence of the commedia far - flung indeed . Shakespeare was writing when the comedy still flourished . No less than eight of his plays — not all of them comedies - have roots to some degree in the commedia dell ' arte and in the ...
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... influence had made itself felt in English taste , and that though the Elizabethan plays were still popular , it became the fashion to revise and " improve " them . The most influential English literary figure of the Restoration era — a ...
... influence had made itself felt in English taste , and that though the Elizabethan plays were still popular , it became the fashion to revise and " improve " them . The most influential English literary figure of the Restoration era — a ...
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How Drama Was Born | 1 |
The Theatre of Greece | 6 |
Roman Spectacle | 33 |
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