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Stock - characters : old man ; young man ; old woman ; young woman ; soldier ; parasite ; cook ; doctor ; many slaves . Comedy , Greek , old . First form of true comedy in ancient Greece ; 5th century B.C .; represented best and chiefly ...
Stock - characters : old man ; young man ; old woman ; young woman ; soldier ; parasite ; cook ; doctor ; many slaves . Comedy , Greek , old . First form of true comedy in ancient Greece ; 5th century B.C .; represented best and chiefly ...
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Young girl , character in a commedia dell'arte , whose lover is the comico acceso ; usually uninteresting and subdued ; often desiring marriage but curbed by hard parents ; sometimes merely a kind of doll , a puppet for the plot .
Young girl , character in a commedia dell'arte , whose lover is the comico acceso ; usually uninteresting and subdued ; often desiring marriage but curbed by hard parents ; sometimes merely a kind of doll , a puppet for the plot .
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864 YOUNG WOODLEY - ZIEGFELD Bring as your offering your spirit , thought , body , voice , imagination , truthfulness , enthusiasm , sensitivity . In Short : mirror the World and the Stars in your understanding and never cease striving ...
864 YOUNG WOODLEY - ZIEGFELD Bring as your offering your spirit , thought , body , voice , imagination , truthfulness , enthusiasm , sensitivity . In Short : mirror the World and the Stars in your understanding and never cease striving ...
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Preface George Freedley | xii |
Curtain Curtain Bernard Sobel | 24 |
Actress Tallulah Bankhead | 33 |
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