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The first Roman stage was simply a wooden platform set up in the Circus Maximus for Etruscan players , the troupes of mimi who came in from the country . The plays of Plautus and Terence were first produced on such stages .
The first Roman stage was simply a wooden platform set up in the Circus Maximus for Etruscan players , the troupes of mimi who came in from the country . The plays of Plautus and Terence were first produced on such stages .
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Bowls of wines or other colored liquids , like apothecary jars in old - fashioned drugstores , were placed before lights to produce the effect of the colored films , or gelatins , the stage electrician uses with his lights today to give ...
Bowls of wines or other colored liquids , like apothecary jars in old - fashioned drugstores , were placed before lights to produce the effect of the colored films , or gelatins , the stage electrician uses with his lights today to give ...
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She was struck by paralysis during a performance and forced to retire from the stage . She died a few years afterward . Henry Fielding was among the eighteenth century playwrights , writing a great deal for the stage in his early years ...
She was struck by paralysis during a performance and forced to retire from the stage . She died a few years afterward . Henry Fielding was among the eighteenth century playwrights , writing a great deal for the stage in his early years ...
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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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