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Whenever possible the natural advantages of steps and building fronts were put to use . ... Human nature being what it is , in time elements crept into the religious drama which the Church did not like but at which it had to wink .
Whenever possible the natural advantages of steps and building fronts were put to use . ... Human nature being what it is , in time elements crept into the religious drama which the Church did not like but at which it had to wink .
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This tells us something profound about the limitations of human nature . The same point is made , more playfully , in the common three - wishes motif of fairy tales . You will find they are almost always wasted .
This tells us something profound about the limitations of human nature . The same point is made , more playfully , in the common three - wishes motif of fairy tales . You will find they are almost always wasted .
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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 ; thy art , My gentle Shakespeare , must enjoy a part : For though the poet's matter nature be , His art doth give ...
Nature herself was proud of his designs , And joyed to wear the dressing of his lines , Yet must I not give nature all ; thy art , My gentle Shakespeare , must enjoy a part : For though the poet's matter nature be , His art doth give ...
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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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