Word: stage
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...first, said Professor Baker, the theatres were rude platforms built in the public squares. Then they were moved to the inn-yards. The galleries around these yards gave rise to the upper stage of Elizabethan drama. Later the actors constructed theatres of their own, using the bear-baiting rings as models...
...Where Shakespeare Set his Stage," by E. Lathrop...
...Struggle for a Free Stage in London," by W. Nicholson...
...such thing as the power of love, and with such effect that "It's all over" between the friend and his affianced. The "Power," embodied in none other than the woman aforesaid, turns out to be too strong for the Sophist himself, and so justifies the title. The real stage-business of the piece, the actual sophistry, like the killing in a Greek tragedy is done behind the scense; but that hardly concerns the critic, and the author has done cleverly what he set out to do. The writer of the account of school-boy incidents, "As Related...
...translation of foreign drama, the lack of a national dramatic school and theatre, and the mistaken point of view of the clergy and the public have caused the great lack of permanent dramatic literature. The English people are either amusement seeking, moderately indifferent or religiously hos- tile to the stage. In spite of all opposition the drama will always exist. Why, then, is it not better to enlist the energy of the cultured for its benefits? What antiquarian Oxford ignores. Harvard, through the work of Professor Baker, is teaching, namely, a true conception of a most influential...