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Life looks a coarse and vulgar thing , lived at the level of nature's primitive needs , but it never looks a foul and rotten thing . Degeneracy plays no part . It is the way of a virile world , of robust men who can roar with laughter ...
Life looks a coarse and vulgar thing , lived at the level of nature's primitive needs , but it never looks a foul and rotten thing . Degeneracy plays no part . It is the way of a virile world , of robust men who can roar with laughter ...
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These exciting things began and for a long time centered in Italy and it is that country with which we are concerned in this chapter . The rebirth in other countries , particularly England , is another story .
These exciting things began and for a long time centered in Italy and it is that country with which we are concerned in this chapter . The rebirth in other countries , particularly England , is another story .
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The renewed consciousness of the heritage of man became a new pride in man , a new energy , a new confidence and expectation of things to come . We would expect such a wonderful age to produce a theatre without equal since the Greeks .
The renewed consciousness of the heritage of man became a new pride in man , a new energy , a new confidence and expectation of things to come . We would expect such a wonderful age to produce a theatre without equal since the Greeks .
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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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| Title | A Pageant of the Theatre |
| Author | Edmund Fuller |
| Editor | Edmund Fuller |
| Publisher | Crowell, 1965 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 29 Jun 2007 |
| Length | 295 pages |
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