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It remained for the great 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 ...
It remained for the great 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 ...
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But New York was not a Puritan town and the theatre remained . The first play performed professionally in the city was The Conscious Lovers , a sentimental comedy by Sir Richard Steele . Pleased with the success of the northward move ...
But New York was not a Puritan town and the theatre remained . The first play performed professionally in the city was The Conscious Lovers , a sentimental comedy by Sir Richard Steele . Pleased with the success of the northward move ...
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He worked his way to the top of his profession by the slow and tedious road of stock companies and he remained something of a stock actor even in his splendor . His first big success was in the melodrama , The Bells .
He worked his way to the top of his profession by the slow and tedious road of stock companies and he remained something of a stock actor even in his splendor . His first big success was in the melodrama , The Bells .
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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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| Title | A Pageant of the Theatre |
| Author | Edmund Fuller |
| Editor | Edmund Fuller |
| Publisher | Crowell, 1965 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 29 Jun 2007 |
| Length | 295 pages |
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