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... Tradition says that in Greece , somewhere between eight and ten centuries before Christ , there was a blind poet named Homer . He is supposed to have been one of the ancient bards who wandered from city to city reciting the mythic ...
... Tradition says that in Greece , somewhere between eight and ten centuries before Christ , there was a blind poet named Homer . He is supposed to have been one of the ancient bards who wandered from city to city reciting the mythic ...
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... tradition . More important , it was their comedies which sur- vived to help shape the plays of later centuries ... traditions that lingered to revive , centuries later , in the commedia dell ' arte . The greatest writer of comedies ...
... tradition . More important , it was their comedies which sur- vived to help shape the plays of later centuries ... traditions that lingered to revive , centuries later , in the commedia dell ' arte . The greatest writer of comedies ...
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... tradition . In the uninhibited commedia of the streets , catering to peasant tastes , the throwing of garbage or worse filth pleased the crowd . Sometimes instead of the slapstick an inflated bladder was used for the same purpose ...
... tradition . In the uninhibited commedia of the streets , catering to peasant tastes , the throwing of garbage or worse filth pleased the crowd . Sometimes instead of the slapstick an inflated bladder was used for the same purpose ...
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How Drama Was Born | 1 |
The Theatre of Greece | 6 |
Roman Spectacle | 33 |
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