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... plays written by Lope ; Cervantes wrote this in Lope's mid - career ] ; and what is most wonderful of all that can ... plays he wrote twenty - one volumes of assorted prose , poetry , novels , and essays , including such widely different ...
... plays written by Lope ; Cervantes wrote this in Lope's mid - career ] ; and what is most wonderful of all that can ... plays he wrote twenty - one volumes of assorted prose , poetry , novels , and essays , including such widely different ...
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... plays . Two such incendiary plays were written by Mrs. Mercy Warren Otis of Massachusetts , wife of James Otis , a prominent rebel leader . She and her husband were friends of John and Abigail Adams . Though her little plays were not ...
... plays . Two such incendiary plays were written by Mrs. Mercy Warren Otis of Massachusetts , wife of James Otis , a prominent rebel leader . She and her husband were friends of John and Abigail Adams . Though her little plays were not ...
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... plays showed as so necessary . That was both true and false . His plays had raised a storm of pro- test and resistance , and though our fundamentally cussed human nature does not change , so many changes in some attitudes and practices ...
... plays showed as so necessary . That was both true and false . His plays had raised a storm of pro- test and resistance , and though our fundamentally cussed human nature does not change , so many changes in some attitudes and practices ...
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How Drama Was Born | 1 |
The Theatre of Greece | 6 |
Roman Spectacle | 33 |
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