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On a wall or curtain behind the scenes is pinned a sheet containing a scenario , or outline of the story , the order of entrances and exits , and perhaps certain principal comic speeches or punch lines . The actors glance over this ...
On a wall or curtain behind the scenes is pinned a sheet containing a scenario , or outline of the story , the order of entrances and exits , and perhaps certain principal comic speeches or punch lines . The actors glance over this ...
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Nature herself was proud of his designs , And joyed to wear the dressing of his lines , Yet must I not give nature all ... and that he Who casts to write a living line must sweat ( Such as thine are ) and strike the second heat Upon the ...
Nature herself was proud of his designs , And joyed to wear the dressing of his lines , Yet must I not give nature all ... and that he Who casts to write a living line must sweat ( Such as thine are ) and strike the second heat Upon the ...
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But the soldier seems bent on stealing the scene , milking his brief moment of glory for all it is worth ; he repeats his line again and again . Abruptly the audience wakes up to the fact that this is not a situation in the drama but a ...
But the soldier seems bent on stealing the scene , milking his brief moment of glory for all it is worth ; he repeats his line again and again . Abruptly the audience wakes up to the fact that this is not a situation in the drama but a ...
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Contents
How Drama Was Born | 1 |
The Theatre of Greece | 6 |
Reconstruction of Theatre of Dionysus at Athens | 14 |
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