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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 earlier Roman drama through this channel . The Comedy of Errors , Romeo and Juliet , Othello , All's Well That ...
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 earlier Roman drama through this channel . The Comedy of Errors , Romeo and Juliet , Othello , All's Well That ...
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Let's go to the Red Bull Theatre , one of the less elegant show places of Elizabethan London , and see a performance of Doctor Faustus . By turns it will be comical and terrifying , swift moving and filled with wonderful effects .
Let's go to the Red Bull Theatre , one of the less elegant show places of Elizabethan London , and see a performance of Doctor Faustus . By turns it will be comical and terrifying , swift moving and filled with wonderful effects .
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The play is immediately topical , called The Blockade of Boston , and is attributed to no less interesting an author than the British General John Burgoyne , popularly known as Gentlemanly Johnny . A person whose grace and charm should ...
The play is immediately topical , called The Blockade of Boston , and is attributed to no less interesting an author than the British General John Burgoyne , popularly known as Gentlemanly Johnny . A person whose grace and charm should ...
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How Drama Was Born | 1 |
The Theatre of Greece | 6 |
Reconstruction of Theatre of Dionysus at Athens | 14 |
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