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... scenes , scenes of sporting and hunt- ing events , and other scenes concerned with the courtly life of the great chiefs and feudal lords of Rajasthan . The Rajasthani style developed various distinct schools , most of them centring in ...
... scenes , scenes of sporting and hunt- ing events , and other scenes concerned with the courtly life of the great chiefs and feudal lords of Rajasthan . The Rajasthani style developed various distinct schools , most of them centring in ...
Page 536
... scenes at a theatre at Mons , Belgium . Trapdoors were used for sud- den appearances , disappearances , and substitutions of dummies for actors in scenes of violence . In a production involving Barnabas ' burning at the stake , the ...
... scenes at a theatre at Mons , Belgium . Trapdoors were used for sud- den appearances , disappearances , and substitutions of dummies for actors in scenes of violence . In a production involving Barnabas ' burning at the stake , the ...
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... scene shifting adopted for intermezzi was derived from discussions of periaktoi found in Vitruvius . Nicola Sabbatini's " Man- ual for Constructing Theatrical Scenes and Machines , ” published in 1638 , listed three main methods of ...
... scene shifting adopted for intermezzi was derived from discussions of periaktoi found in Vitruvius . Nicola Sabbatini's " Man- ual for Constructing Theatrical Scenes and Machines , ” published in 1638 , listed three main methods of ...
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