The Works of Shakespeare, Volume 11Macmillan and Company, limited, 1903 |
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... gave tragedy its name . Grouped about rude altars , in a rude chorus , they told the story of the god's wander- ings and adventures , not with words only , but with gesture , dance , and music . The expression of thought and feeling was ...
... gave tragedy its name . Grouped about rude altars , in a rude chorus , they told the story of the god's wander- ings and adventures , not with words only , but with gesture , dance , and music . The expression of thought and feeling was ...
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... in part their early license gave place to the grossest personalities and the cheapest tricks and feats of skill . The mimes , or players , carried this degenerate drama into the provinces , where taste was even less 4 William Shakespeare.
... in part their early license gave place to the grossest personalities and the cheapest tricks and feats of skill . The mimes , or players , carried this degenerate drama into the provinces , where taste was even less 4 William Shakespeare.
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... gave public notice . The dif- ferent guilds undertook the presentation of different acts or scenes . Two - story wagons took the place of the stage in front of the church or in the square ; on these wagons , or pageants , as they were ...
... gave public notice . The dif- ferent guilds undertook the presentation of different acts or scenes . Two - story wagons took the place of the stage in front of the church or in the square ; on these wagons , or pageants , as they were ...
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... gave free play to the melodramatic ele- ment so dear to the uncultivated in every age , appeared those very tenuous and shadowy abstractions , the World , the Flesh , the Devil , not as actors in the world's tragedy , but as ...
... gave free play to the melodramatic ele- ment so dear to the uncultivated in every age , appeared those very tenuous and shadowy abstractions , the World , the Flesh , the Devil , not as actors in the world's tragedy , but as ...
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... by boys . The transition from the Moralities to the fully de- veloped play was gradual , and was not marked by logical gradations . The tendency to allegory gave place slowly to the tendency to character - drawing , 14 William Shakespeare.
... by boys . The transition from the Moralities to the fully de- veloped play was gradual , and was not marked by logical gradations . The tendency to allegory gave place slowly to the tendency to character - drawing , 14 William Shakespeare.
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