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... audience takes away from the theatre , many hands and many physical elements help to Essential bring it to life . Questions therefore arise as to what is and elements of what is not essential to it . Is a play what its author thought a ...
... audience takes away from the theatre , many hands and many physical elements help to Essential bring it to life . Questions therefore arise as to what is and elements of what is not essential to it . Is a play what its author thought a ...
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... audience as to a popular street audience . The most important Chinese plays stem from the Yüan dynasty ( 1206-1368 ) , in which an episodic narrative is carefully structured and unified . Each scene introduces a song whose lines have a ...
... audience as to a popular street audience . The most important Chinese plays stem from the Yüan dynasty ( 1206-1368 ) , in which an episodic narrative is carefully structured and unified . Each scene introduces a song whose lines have a ...
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... audience and the actor in the two periods , a relationship that determined the kind of communication open to the playwright and the role the drama could play in society . Three basic playhouse shapes have emerged in the history of the ...
... audience and the actor in the two periods , a relationship that determined the kind of communication open to the playwright and the role the drama could play in society . Three basic playhouse shapes have emerged in the history of the ...
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