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... play , religious drama of medieval origin dealing with the suffering , death , and Resurrection of Christ . Early Passion plays ( in Latin ) consisted of readings from the Gospel with interpolated poetical sections on the events of ...
... play , religious drama of medieval origin dealing with the suffering , death , and Resurrection of Christ . Early Passion plays ( in Latin ) consisted of readings from the Gospel with interpolated poetical sections on the events of ...
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... plays written by Greek authors of the late 4th and early 3rd centuries BC ( who represented the " New Comedy , " as it was called ) , notably by Menander and Philemon . Plautus did not , however , borrow slavishly ; although the life ...
... plays written by Greek authors of the late 4th and early 3rd centuries BC ( who represented the " New Comedy , " as it was called ) , notably by Menander and Philemon . Plautus did not , however , borrow slavishly ; although the life ...
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... plays , and was sufficiently far removed in distance and in mores from 17th - century France to create an alluring exoticism for contemporary audi- ences . In the play , the main characters - the young prince Bajazet , his beloved ...
... plays , and was sufficiently far removed in distance and in mores from 17th - century France to create an alluring exoticism for contemporary audi- ences . In the play , the main characters - the young prince Bajazet , his beloved ...
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