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... theatre , if only on the score of the quantity of information which it contains , and the light which it throws on the actual conditions of theatrical work . The improvement of these conditions is the main end which the authors have in ...
... theatre , if only on the score of the quantity of information which it contains , and the light which it throws on the actual conditions of theatrical work . The improvement of these conditions is the main end which the authors have in ...
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... Theatre is the collar of State control - an instrument which is all the more dangerous from its apparent insignificance . It lies there so quietly embedded in the fat folds of the contented animal that it needs the sharp eye of a wolf ...
... Theatre is the collar of State control - an instrument which is all the more dangerous from its apparent insignificance . It lies there so quietly embedded in the fat folds of the contented animal that it needs the sharp eye of a wolf ...
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Lytton Strachey. functions of criticism ? If a theatre is to be a ' National ' theatre in anything but name , it must , in one way or another , come under national control ; and whether this control be exercised through the medium of ...
Lytton Strachey. functions of criticism ? If a theatre is to be a ' National ' theatre in anything but name , it must , in one way or another , come under national control ; and whether this control be exercised through the medium of ...
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A New History of Rome Jan 2 1909 page | 13 |
Sir Henry Wotton Nov 23 1907 | 23 |
The Swan of Lichfield Dec 7 1907 | 33 |
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