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. |
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The Theatre Human and Divine I | 1 |
Where the Theatre Came from and When | 12 |
the Noble Greeks | 32 |
Copyright | |
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