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Page 146
... plays , and each was played on its own stage in the vernacular by members of the craft guilds . Thus , the authors of these dramas gave their audience not a mass communal experience , as the Greek dramatists had done , but rather many ...
... plays , and each was played on its own stage in the vernacular by members of the craft guilds . Thus , the authors of these dramas gave their audience not a mass communal experience , as the Greek dramatists had done , but rather many ...
Page 150
... plays on pageant wagons , the early No drama of Japan , the royal theatre of Cambodia . Character- istic of all these ... played for a better paying and more sophisticated audience , which favoured the satirical or philosophical plays of ...
... plays on pageant wagons , the early No drama of Japan , the royal theatre of Cambodia . Character- istic of all these ... played for a better paying and more sophisticated audience , which favoured the satirical or philosophical plays of ...
Page 156
... played out . The satiric import of Restoration comedy resides in the dramatist's awareness of a familiar incongruity ... plays is chiefly concerned with detailing the artful dodges that ladies and gentlemen employ to satisfy nature and ...
... played out . The satiric import of Restoration comedy resides in the dramatist's awareness of a familiar incongruity ... plays is chiefly concerned with detailing the artful dodges that ladies and gentlemen employ to satisfy nature and ...
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