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... literary school , produced but two important dramatists : Heinrich von Kleist and Franz Grillparzer . The next literary movement of any considerable significance was not to appear until about 1880 , with the advent of naturalism ...
... literary school , produced but two important dramatists : Heinrich von Kleist and Franz Grillparzer . The next literary movement of any considerable significance was not to appear until about 1880 , with the advent of naturalism ...
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... literary and aristocratic classes ; hence , it was never a truly national drama . Its ethics are lofty ; its pathos blends with resignation ; its humor is delicate ; its diction eloquent and figurative ; its poetry is fanciful and ...
... literary and aristocratic classes ; hence , it was never a truly national drama . Its ethics are lofty ; its pathos blends with resignation ; its humor is delicate ; its diction eloquent and figurative ; its poetry is fanciful and ...
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... literary groups sponsoring new and important foreign and native playwrights whose works were rejected by commercial producers . The Independent Theatre was founded in 1891 , the Stage Society in 1900 , the Irish Literary Theatre ( later ...
... literary groups sponsoring new and important foreign and native playwrights whose works were rejected by commercial producers . The Independent Theatre was founded in 1891 , the Stage Society in 1900 , the Irish Literary Theatre ( later ...
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CONTENTS | xi |
Preface George Freedley | xii |
Acoustics 2343 | 24 |
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