The Works of Shakespeare, Volume 11Macmillan Company, 1904 |
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... taste by Terence , Plautus , and their successors , was exhausted , farces , with music , pantomime , and humorous dialogue , largely improvised , met the gen- eral need with the coarse fun which suited a time of declining taste and ...
... taste by Terence , Plautus , and their successors , was exhausted , farces , with music , pantomime , and humorous dialogue , largely improvised , met the gen- eral need with the coarse fun which suited a time of declining taste and ...
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... taste at a time when popular taste was coarse to the last degree , were inevitable . Then , as now , society had the kind of entertainment for which it asked ; then , as now , the players were bent on pleasing the people . The Church ...
... taste at a time when popular taste was coarse to the last degree , were inevitable . Then , as now , society had the kind of entertainment for which it asked ; then , as now , the players were bent on pleasing the people . The Church ...
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... taste . It would be a great mistake , however , to interpret either the intermingling of the tragic and the comic or the gross- ness of speech as indicating general corruption ; they indicate an undeveloped rather than a corrupt society ...
... taste . It would be a great mistake , however , to interpret either the intermingling of the tragic and the comic or the gross- ness of speech as indicating general corruption ; they indicate an undeveloped rather than a corrupt society ...
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... taste of the time ; but it was a true growth of the English soil , free from foreign influence ; the virility , the gayety , and the license of the early English spirit were in it . " Ralph Roister Doister , " the earliest comedy , was ...
... taste of the time ; but it was a true growth of the English soil , free from foreign influence ; the virility , the gayety , and the license of the early English spirit were in it . " Ralph Roister Doister , " the earliest comedy , was ...
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... taste at a time when the influence of the classical literatures was putting its impress on men of taste and culture . Italy , by virtue of its immense service in the recovery of classical thought and art , and in the production of great ...
... taste at a time when the influence of the classical literatures was putting its impress on men of taste and culture . Italy , by virtue of its immense service in the recovery of classical thought and art , and in the production of great ...
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