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... poet who has won Elizabethan audiences with a series of plays , each of which the modern theatre would call a hit . The others present are Ingram Frisar , who seems to have been host to the party , Robert Poley , and Nicholas Skeres ...
... poet who has won Elizabethan audiences with a series of plays , each of which the modern theatre would call a hit . The others present are Ingram Frisar , who seems to have been host to the party , Robert Poley , and Nicholas Skeres ...
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... poet's matter nature be , His art doth give the fashion ; and that he Who casts to write a living line must sweat ( Such as thine are ) and strike the second heat Upon the Muses ' anvil , turn the same , And himself with it , that he ...
... poet's matter nature be , His art doth give the fashion ; and that he Who casts to write a living line must sweat ( Such as thine are ) and strike the second heat Upon the Muses ' anvil , turn the same , And himself with it , that he ...
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... poet - dramatist Goethe to produce it some years later at the court of Weimar . The play is less important as a drama than as a noble plea for tolerance . No better tribute could be paid to it than the fact that it was barred from the ...
... poet - dramatist Goethe to produce it some years later at the court of Weimar . The play is less important as a drama than as a noble plea for tolerance . No better tribute could be paid to it than the fact that it was barred from the ...
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How Drama Was Born | 1 |
The Theatre of Greece | 6 |
Roman Spectacle | 33 |
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