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Edmund Fuller. sentiment : a love story . It is a softer , gentler mode of humor , more of a story and less of a ... stories deal with confused questions of the parentage of children , mistaken identities , surprising revelations and ...
Edmund Fuller. sentiment : a love story . It is a softer , gentler mode of humor , more of a story and less of a ... stories deal with confused questions of the parentage of children , mistaken identities , surprising revelations and ...
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... story of a crime involving a samurai , his wife , and an outlaw . The events are enacted four different ways , from the point of view of each of the three principals and a spectator . Rashomon in turn was transplanted to an American ...
... story of a crime involving a samurai , his wife , and an outlaw . The events are enacted four different ways , from the point of view of each of the three principals and a spectator . Rashomon in turn was transplanted to an American ...
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... story of a man cruelly wronged by his brother , who takes refuge with outlaws in the forests of Germany . In Robin Hood fashion the outlaws are pic- tured as more moral in their way of acquiring wealth than the prominent respectable ...
... story of a man cruelly wronged by his brother , who takes refuge with outlaws in the forests of Germany . In Robin Hood fashion the outlaws are pic- tured as more moral in their way of acquiring wealth than the prominent respectable ...
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How Drama Was Born | 1 |
The Theatre of Greece | 6 |
Roman Spectacle | 33 |
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