The Works of Shakespeare, Volume 11Macmillan and Company, limited, 1903 |
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... popular shows became more pronounced as the Roman populace sank in intelligence and virtue ; the vigour which redeemed in part their early license gave place to the grossest personalities and the cheapest tricks and feats of skill . The ...
... popular shows became more pronounced as the Roman populace sank in intelligence and virtue ; the vigour which redeemed in part their early license gave place to the grossest personalities and the cheapest tricks and feats of skill . The ...
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... popular 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 ...
... popular 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 ...
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... popular religious and social interest was now concentrated , fell into their hands . Cities like York , Chester , and Coventry fostered the growing art with enthusiasm and generosity . By the beginning of the fifteenth 9 The Forerunners ...
... popular religious and social interest was now concentrated , fell into their hands . Cities like York , Chester , and Coventry fostered the growing art with enthusiasm and generosity . By the beginning of the fifteenth 9 The Forerunners ...
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... . Pilate and Herod divided popular attention by their semi- humorous or melodramatic rôles , and Noah's wife afforded an opportunity for the play of monotonous and very obvious masculine wit on the faults and frailty ΙΟ William Shakespeare.
... . Pilate and Herod divided popular attention by their semi- humorous or melodramatic rôles , and Noah's wife afforded an opportunity for the play of monotonous and very obvious masculine wit on the faults and frailty ΙΟ William Shakespeare.
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... popular " Everyman , " which deals , not without dignity , with the supreme experience of death , to " Wyt and Science , " which doubtless , on many a school stage , set forth the charms of knowl- edge , and presented one of the ...
... popular " Everyman , " which deals , not without dignity , with the supreme experience of death , to " Wyt and Science , " which doubtless , on many a school stage , set forth the charms of knowl- edge , and presented one of the ...
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