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... drama which , with its elaborate and artistic plot , its lively incidents , and brilliant dialogue , has taken possession under the same name of the modern stage . It is difficult to compare it to any one form of modern literature , ...
... drama which , with its elaborate and artistic plot , its lively incidents , and brilliant dialogue , has taken possession under the same name of the modern stage . It is difficult to compare it to any one form of modern literature , ...
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... drama , the Policinella of the Neapolitans : something of the same wild buffoonery overlying the same caustic satire on the prominent events and persons of the day , and even something of the same popular influence . * The comic ...
... drama , the Policinella of the Neapolitans : something of the same wild buffoonery overlying the same caustic satire on the prominent events and persons of the day , and even something of the same popular influence . * The comic ...
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... dramatic representations at Athens took place only at the Dionysia , or Great Festivals of Bacchus , which were held three times a - year , and that each play was brought out by its author in competi- tion for the prize of tragedy or ...
... dramatic representations at Athens took place only at the Dionysia , or Great Festivals of Bacchus , which were held three times a - year , and that each play was brought out by its author in competi- tion for the prize of tragedy or ...
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... dramas of the great tragedians — which , in the case of such inveterate play - goers as the Athenians were , is not so very surprising - and an acquaintance with the political questions and the public celebrities of the day which ...
... dramas of the great tragedians — which , in the case of such inveterate play - goers as the Athenians were , is not so very surprising - and an acquaintance with the political questions and the public celebrities of the day which ...
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... dramas in the Greek ori- ginal . One is inclined to place more faith than is usually due to anecdotes of the kind in that which is told of Plato , that when the elder Dionysius , tyrant of * The Knights , 1. 233 . Syracuse , wrote to ...
... dramas in the Greek ori- ginal . One is inclined to place more faith than is usually due to anecdotes of the kind in that which is told of Plato , that when the elder Dionysius , tyrant of * The Knights , 1. 233 . Syracuse , wrote to ...
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