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... Organization ( Plate 15b ) . Acknowledgement is also made to Macmillan & Co. , Ltd. for permission to quote a passage from Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell , and to the owner of the subsisting copyright for permission to print an ...
... Organization ( Plate 15b ) . Acknowledgement is also made to Macmillan & Co. , Ltd. for permission to quote a passage from Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell , and to the owner of the subsisting copyright for permission to print an ...
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... organization your job will certainly be a little easier ; but the principles will be the same . Act- ing in school societies , by the way , often reaches excellent standards and many schools nowadays have thriving drama societies ...
... organization your job will certainly be a little easier ; but the principles will be the same . Act- ing in school societies , by the way , often reaches excellent standards and many schools nowadays have thriving drama societies ...
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... organizations perhaps . After the play is over they disband until next time , probably with many different members . Naturally they have not any continu- ous policy and they are not very important to us . More significant than either ...
... organizations perhaps . After the play is over they disband until next time , probably with many different members . Naturally they have not any continu- ous policy and they are not very important to us . More significant than either ...
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... organizations like the Old Vic and the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre revive it from time to time . The repertory theatres differ from the provincial theatres that present touring companies . These companies travel from place to place ...
... organizations like the Old Vic and the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre revive it from time to time . The repertory theatres differ from the provincial theatres that present touring companies . These companies travel from place to place ...
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... organizations typified by the Arts Theatre Club in London . The Old Vic and Stratford Memorial Theatre are in little worlds of their own , generally ( but not invariably ! ) putting on Shakespearian productions of a very high standard ...
... organizations typified by the Arts Theatre Club in London . The Old Vic and Stratford Memorial Theatre are in little worlds of their own , generally ( but not invariably ! ) putting on Shakespearian productions of a very high standard ...
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Page 48 - I fondly ask. But Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, 'God doth not need Either man's work or his own gifts. Who best Bear his mild yoke, they serve him best. His state Is kingly : thousands at his bidding speed, And post o'er land and ocean without rest...
Page 37 - My soul is an enchanted boat, Which, like a sleeping swan, doth float Upon the silver waves of thy sweet singing...
Page 61 - You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things! O, you hard hearts, you cruel men of Rome, Knew you not Pompey ? Many a time and oft Have you climbed up to walls and battlements, To towers and windows, yea, to chimney-tops, Your infants in your arms, and there have sat The live-long day, with patient expectation, To see great Pompey pass the streets of Rome...
Page 52 - And licked the soup from the cooks' own ladles, Split open the kegs of salted sprats, Made nests inside men's Sunday hats, And even spoiled the women's chats By drowning their speaking With shrieking and squeaking In fifty different sharps and flats.
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Page 42 - I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a prison on each hand...
Page 53 - There was a rustling that seemed like a bustling Of merry crowds justling at pitching and hustling, Small feet were pattering, wooden shoes clattering, Little hands clapping and little tongues chattering, And, like fowls in a farmyard when barley is scattering Out came the children running. All the little boys and girls, With rosy cheeks and flaxen curls...
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Page 62 - And do you now put on your best attire? And do you now cull out a holiday ? And do you now strew flowers in his way, That comes in triumph over Pompey's blood? Be gone! Run to your houses, fall upon your knees, Pray to the gods to intermit the plague That needs must light on this ingratitude.
References to this book
Drama Bibliography: A Short-title Guide to Extended Reading in Dramatic Art ... No preview available - 1971 |
Drama Bibliography: A Short-title Guide to Extended Reading in Dramatic Art ... No preview available - 1971 |