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Terence was not a popular success and fell back on a consolation to which many writers after him have resorted : pride in writing for a limited but discriminating audience . After a brief , frustrating career in the theatre he set out ...
Terence was not a popular success and fell back on a consolation to which many writers after him have resorted : pride in writing for a limited but discriminating audience . After a brief , frustrating career in the theatre he set out ...
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Lessing died in 1781 , two years after writing Nathan the Wise . He never saw his play upon the stage , for the spirit of the time was hostile to it . It remained for the great poet - dramatist Goethe to produce it some years later at ...
Lessing died in 1781 , two years after writing Nathan the Wise . He never saw his play upon the stage , for the spirit of the time was hostile to it . It remained for the great poet - dramatist Goethe to produce it some years later at ...
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To set about writing plays in earnest , as if one wanted to earn money , or as if there were any possible fame more desirable than being a gentleman of the court , just was not done . These writers were uniquely contemptuous of literary ...
To set about writing plays in earnest , as if one wanted to earn money , or as if there were any possible fame more desirable than being a gentleman of the court , just was not done . These writers were uniquely contemptuous of literary ...
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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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