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... known nondramatic works is the Ode to Joy which Beethoven set to magnificent music in the last movement of his Ninth Symphony . The play Don Carlos dealt with a hero of Spanish history and was made into a fine opera by Verdi . German ...
... known nondramatic works is the Ode to Joy which Beethoven set to magnificent music in the last movement of his Ninth Symphony . The play Don Carlos dealt with a hero of Spanish history and was made into a fine opera by Verdi . German ...
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... known to the French respectively as Dumas père and Dumas fils , both were popular novelists and playwrights . The father's sheer bulk of out- put was amazing and he is remembered best in English for the series of romantic novels ...
... known to the French respectively as Dumas père and Dumas fils , both were popular novelists and playwrights . The father's sheer bulk of out- put was amazing and he is remembered best in English for the series of romantic novels ...
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... known widely simply as G.B.S. His career was so versatile and so long that he is a principal figure , if not the one , in the theatre of both the nineteenth and twentieth centuries . Different though he is in all respects from his ...
... known widely simply as G.B.S. His career was so versatile and so long that he is a principal figure , if not the one , in the theatre of both the nineteenth and twentieth centuries . Different though he is in all respects from his ...
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How Drama Was Born | 1 |
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