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... satirical , bristling with the barbed wit that criticizes , mocks , exposes , or deflates its target . Aristophanes had a scatter - shot style that spared neither persons nor institutions . He was opposed to the war with Sparta and ...
... satirical , bristling with the barbed wit that criticizes , mocks , exposes , or deflates its target . Aristophanes had a scatter - shot style that spared neither persons nor institutions . He was opposed to the war with Sparta and ...
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... satirical adaptation of Gay's work , calling it The Threepenny Opera , which has enjoyed great popularity on the English - speaking stage as well as in Europe . The last of the master playwrights of the eighteenth century theatre in ...
... satirical adaptation of Gay's work , calling it The Threepenny Opera , which has enjoyed great popularity on the English - speaking stage as well as in Europe . The last of the master playwrights of the eighteenth century theatre in ...
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... satirical closet plays . Obviously out of the question for public performance be- cause of their political content , they were chiefly intended for private circulation and reading ; at the most for rare amateur per- formance behind ...
... satirical closet plays . Obviously out of the question for public performance be- cause of their political content , they were chiefly intended for private circulation and reading ; at the most for rare amateur per- formance behind ...
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How Drama Was Born | 1 |
The Theatre of Greece | 6 |
Roman Spectacle | 33 |
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