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On many special occasions , such as the annual pressing of the wine , the early Greeks would gather for revelry and celebration in honor of this deity , patron of the wine and , like its effects , sometimes joyous and sometimes terrible ...
On many special occasions , such as the annual pressing of the wine , the early Greeks would gather for revelry and celebration in honor of this deity , patron of the wine and , like its effects , sometimes joyous and sometimes terrible ...
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Roman writers sometimes speak of the curtain being down while the play was going on . From this , and from slots which can be seen in the ruins of some Roman theatres , it seems that the Roman curtain was pulled up from a roller to shut ...
Roman writers sometimes speak of the curtain being down while the play was going on . From this , and from slots which can be seen in the ruins of some Roman theatres , it seems that the Roman curtain was pulled up from a roller to shut ...
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In such plays as Rosmersholm , The Lady from the Sea , and When We Dead Awaken , there is sometimes a rhapsodic eloquence that suggests the poetry he had left behind . Ibsen died in 1906 ; in the preceding years he had suffered two ...
In such plays as Rosmersholm , The Lady from the Sea , and When We Dead Awaken , there is sometimes a rhapsodic eloquence that suggests the poetry he had left behind . Ibsen died in 1906 ; in the preceding years he had suffered two ...
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How Drama Was Born | 1 |
The Theatre of Greece | 6 |
Reconstruction of Theatre of Dionysus at Athens | 14 |
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