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... played musical instruments , and broke up the monotony of life at a time when means of com- munication were few ... player was welcome , not only because he was entertaining , but because he brought the air of the remote world with him ...
... played musical instruments , and broke up the monotony of life at a time when means of com- munication were few ... player was welcome , not only because he was entertaining , but because he brought the air of the remote world with him ...
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William Shakespeare Charles Harold Herford. replace them by plays of a better quality . The play persists , and cannot be successfully banned . This degenerate practice of a once noble art came into England after the Norman Conquest ...
William Shakespeare Charles Harold Herford. replace them by plays of a better quality . The play persists , and cannot be successfully banned . This degenerate practice of a once noble art came into England after the Norman Conquest ...
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... plays were in series and required several days for presentation , and the town made the occasion one of general and hilarious holiday . On ... play of monotonous and very obvious masculine wit on the faults and frailty ΙΟ William Shakespeare.
... plays were in series and required several days for presentation , and the town made the occasion one of general and hilarious holiday . On ... play of monotonous and very obvious masculine wit on the faults and frailty ΙΟ William Shakespeare.
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... plays had shown some skill in the development of character ; in the Morali- ties the stage was surrendered to the ... play to the melodramatic ele- ment so dear to the uncultivated in every age , appeared those very tenuous and ...
... plays had shown some skill in the development of character ; in the Morali- ties the stage was surrendered to the ... play to the melodramatic ele- ment so dear to the uncultivated in every age , appeared those very tenuous and ...
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... plays in various parts of the country in the courts of inns and , on great occasions , in large towns and cities . For all classes dearly loved the bravery , excitement , and di- version of the pageant , the masque , and the play of ...
... plays in various parts of the country in the courts of inns and , on great occasions , in large towns and cities . For all classes dearly loved the bravery , excitement , and di- version of the pageant , the masque , and the play of ...
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