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This means it did not try to imitate life literally but to suggest the most important qualities of life . Often in modern times stage and film have been given over to close imitations of nature . Yet even the most realistic dramatic ...
This means it did not try to imitate life literally but to suggest the most important qualities of life . Often in modern times stage and film have been given over to close imitations of nature . Yet even the most realistic dramatic ...
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I can cure you at once , and for all time , of your wife's verbal hypertrophy , by means of cophosis . LEONARD By cophosis ? What is cophosis ? MASTER SIMON ' Tis what is vulgarly called deafness . Do you see any disadvantages in ...
I can cure you at once , and for all time , of your wife's verbal hypertrophy , by means of cophosis . LEONARD By cophosis ? What is cophosis ? MASTER SIMON ' Tis what is vulgarly called deafness . Do you see any disadvantages in ...
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He met and married secretly a wealthy , widowed noblewoman of the court - a match he expected to bring him all he desired in means and position . But when the news was out it angered the king . Wycherley lost all place at court , became ...
He met and married secretly a wealthy , widowed noblewoman of the court - a match he expected to bring him all he desired in means and position . But when the news was out it angered the king . Wycherley lost all place at court , became ...
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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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