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To avoid this awful disaster he left Corinth , vowing never to return while his supposed parents lived . At a crossing of three roads he met King Laius of Thebes who arrogantly ordered him to stand aside . A quarrel followed and the ...
To avoid this awful disaster he left Corinth , vowing never to return while his supposed parents lived . At a crossing of three roads he met King Laius of Thebes who arrogantly ordered him to stand aside . A quarrel followed and the ...
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He accepted what was surely not a voluntary exile and lived and wrote for the short remainder of his life in Macedonia where , according to legend , he was accidentally torn to pieces by the hunting dogs of his host , King Archelaus .
He accepted what was surely not a voluntary exile and lived and wrote for the short remainder of his life in Macedonia where , according to legend , he was accidentally torn to pieces by the hunting dogs of his host , King Archelaus .
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It is against the general background of this age that we view the Spanish theatre and consider the one important man who came before Lope and others who were his contemporaries or lived on after him . Lope de Rueda , who lived from 1510 ...
It is against the general background of this age that we view the Spanish theatre and consider the one important man who came before Lope and others who were his contemporaries or lived on after him . Lope de Rueda , who lived from 1510 ...
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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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