The Works of Shakespeare, Volume 11Macmillan Company, 1904 |
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... influence of Menander , modified and adapted to Roman 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 ...
... influence of Menander , modified and adapted to Roman 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 ...
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... influence this humble and tur- bid stream of dramatic activity may have had on the development of the English drama cannot be deter- mined ; the chief influence in the making of that drama came from the Church . The Church con- demned ...
... influence this humble and tur- bid stream of dramatic activity may have had on the development of the English drama cannot be deter- mined ; the chief influence in the making of that drama came from the Church . The Church con- demned ...
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... influence ; the virility , the gayety , and the license of the early English spirit were in it . " Ralph Roister Doister , " the earliest comedy , was produced not later than 1550 - perhaps twenty years after the production of the ...
... influence ; the virility , the gayety , and the license of the early English spirit were in it . " Ralph Roister Doister , " the earliest comedy , was produced not later than 1550 - perhaps twenty years after the production of the ...
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... influence , lay its promise . The earlier development of comedy as compared with tragedy is not difficult to account for . Tragedy exacts something from an audience ; a certain degree of seriousness or of culture must be possessed by ...
... influence , lay its promise . The earlier development of comedy as compared with tragedy is not difficult to account for . Tragedy exacts something from an audience ; a certain degree of seriousness or of culture must be possessed by ...
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... influence be- came a danger to native originality and development . Italian literature came into England like a flood , and , through a host of translations , some of which were of masterly quality , the intellectual inequality of a ...
... influence be- came a danger to native originality and development . Italian literature came into England like a flood , and , through a host of translations , some of which were of masterly quality , the intellectual inequality of a ...
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