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This change can be seen in the ruins of the theatre of Dionysus at Athens . We don't really know how much painted scenery the Greeks used . Probably the formal background of the skene usually took the place of scenery . If you have seen ...
This change can be seen in the ruins of the theatre of Dionysus at Athens . We don't really know how much painted scenery the Greeks used . Probably the formal background of the skene usually took the place of scenery . If you have seen ...
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Even so , smaller Roman theatres for plays can be seen all around the Mediterranean shores and in France and Britain . Just outside Rome , in the huge tumbledown estate of Hadrian's villa , the emperor had one theatre in the ...
Even so , smaller Roman theatres for plays can be seen all around the Mediterranean shores and in France and Britain . Just outside Rome , in the huge tumbledown estate of Hadrian's villa , the emperor had one theatre in the ...
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The large Japanese puppets have been seen here , too . One of the features of kabuki most impressive to American audiences is the lion dance in which the performer , wearing a long , trailing wig , longer than his own body ...
The large Japanese puppets have been seen here , too . One of the features of kabuki most impressive to American audiences is the lion dance in which the performer , wearing a long , trailing wig , longer than his own body ...
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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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