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Life looks a coarse and vulgar thing , lived at the level of nature's primitive needs , but it never looks a foul and rotten thing . Degeneracy plays no part . It is the way of a virile world , of robust men who can roar with laughter ...
Life looks a coarse and vulgar thing , lived at the level of nature's primitive needs , but it never looks a foul and rotten thing . Degeneracy plays no part . It is the way of a virile world , of robust men who can roar with laughter ...
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You can look and listen when you feel like it , then turn away to talk and eat . It is all the same . The performance will be going on when you look back . When you have had enough of any of its various pleasures you will get up and ...
You can look and listen when you feel like it , then turn away to talk and eat . It is all the same . The performance will be going on when you look back . When you have had enough of any of its various pleasures you will get up and ...
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We must look back a bit to speak of the Russian people's undoubted genius for the theatre arts . Contemporary with Shaw's early period was the Russian physician and man of letters , Anton Chekhov . He was born in 1860 in southern Russia ...
We must look back a bit to speak of the Russian people's undoubted genius for the theatre arts . Contemporary with Shaw's early period was the Russian physician and man of letters , Anton Chekhov . He was born in 1860 in southern Russia ...
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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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