New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 16Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth E. W. Allen, 1826 |
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... play was ever invented by the gloomy genius of Sparta . The word drama , however , is not of Attic , but of Doric derivation . And if the generic term for acted plays came from a dialect foreign to the Athenians , it may naturally be ...
... play was ever invented by the gloomy genius of Sparta . The word drama , however , is not of Attic , but of Doric derivation . And if the generic term for acted plays came from a dialect foreign to the Athenians , it may naturally be ...
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... player distinct from the chorus performed , and that they had also a newer drama , evidently borrowed from Athens , which is mentioned in those inscriptions , conjointly with an actor . Thus Doric and Æolic tragedy was nothing more than ...
... player distinct from the chorus performed , and that they had also a newer drama , evidently borrowed from Athens , which is mentioned in those inscriptions , conjointly with an actor . Thus Doric and Æolic tragedy was nothing more than ...
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... play ; he had to instruct the stage and orchestra players in their rehearsals , and fre- quently himself took a part in the representation . It was held dero- gatory to no man's dignity to appear on the stage of Athens ; and she counted ...
... play ; he had to instruct the stage and orchestra players in their rehearsals , and fre- quently himself took a part in the representation . It was held dero- gatory to no man's dignity to appear on the stage of Athens ; and she counted ...
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... play , and also as another lounging - place for the spectators , independent of the garden portico behind the stage buildings , which has been already mentioned . Inside of that wall and portico the benches descended ( for we suppose ...
... play , and also as another lounging - place for the spectators , independent of the garden portico behind the stage buildings , which has been already mentioned . Inside of that wall and portico the benches descended ( for we suppose ...
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... plays themselves show that there could not have been many changes of scene , and that the curtain was seldom necessary . But from the known fact , that the Greeks understood perspective , and from their anxiety to impress the senses ...
... plays themselves show that there could not have been many changes of scene , and that the curtain was seldom necessary . But from the known fact , that the Greeks understood perspective , and from their anxiety to impress the senses ...
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