The Theatre: Three Thousand Years of Drama, Acting and StagecraftA history of the drama and the stage. There are facts about the great playhouses, dramatists, plays, poetry, actors, producers and vagabonds of the theatre, etc. |
Contents
Where the Theatre Came from | 11 |
the Noble Greeks | 30 |
Greece and Rome | 69 |
Copyright | |
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