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S. M. Du Pré. popular for schoolboys to act these religious plays , and we have a survival of the custom in the annual play which is required from the Westminster boys . The plays were at first kept in the hands of the Church authorities ...
S. M. Du Pré. popular for schoolboys to act these religious plays , and we have a survival of the custom in the annual play which is required from the Westminster boys . The plays were at first kept in the hands of the Church authorities ...
Page 73
... plays were acted on movable stages , drawn one after the other through the streets , while the spectators would look on from platforms erected in the streets , windows , or house - tops . The last of the Coventry plays dates 1580 , but ...
... plays were acted on movable stages , drawn one after the other through the streets , while the spectators would look on from platforms erected in the streets , windows , or house - tops . The last of the Coventry plays dates 1580 , but ...
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... plays he consulted the romances of the Middle Ages , and the Old English plays and ballads he loved so well . Shakespeare's non - dramatic writings consist of the poems Venus and Adonis and Lucrece , and a large group of very fine ...
... plays he consulted the romances of the Middle Ages , and the Old English plays and ballads he loved so well . Shakespeare's non - dramatic writings consist of the poems Venus and Adonis and Lucrece , and a large group of very fine ...
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