Encyclopedia Americana, Volume 24Americana Corporation, 1965 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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... plays translated from the German again came into vogue , supplemented by translations of a few of Molière's dramas . Public theaters were opened , and the old school plays were now played only in the seminaries and academies . There is ...
... plays translated from the German again came into vogue , supplemented by translations of a few of Molière's dramas . Public theaters were opened , and the old school plays were now played only in the seminaries and academies . There is ...
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... plays . On the In the extensive literary production of Leo ( Lev ) Tolstoy ( 1828-1910 , q.v. ) , drama was merely incidental . Yet he wrote several plays , one or two of which have an enduring place in the great dramatic literature of ...
... plays . On the In the extensive literary production of Leo ( Lev ) Tolstoy ( 1828-1910 , q.v. ) , drama was merely incidental . Yet he wrote several plays , one or two of which have an enduring place in the great dramatic literature of ...
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... plays , and the rhetorical prose and gaudy colors weary both the ear and eye . But their melodramatic effects often make for good theater , and for a time their philosophy of vanity , death , and the falseness of everything human had ...
... plays , and the rhetorical prose and gaudy colors weary both the ear and eye . But their melodramatic effects often make for good theater , and for a time their philosophy of vanity , death , and the falseness of everything human had ...
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