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... brought an increase of artifice to the stage . The Inns of Court became significant during the Elizabethan period because the increase in litigation , brought about by the re - emergence of common law , provided opportunities for wealth ...
... brought an increase of artifice to the stage . The Inns of Court became significant during the Elizabethan period because the increase in litigation , brought about by the re - emergence of common law , provided opportunities for wealth ...
Page 62
... brought to the stage the energies , conventions , urban realism , situational ironies and ambiguous attitudes of the satiric verse of the late 1590s ; Beaumont and Fletcher brought to English drama the elegance , nervous movement ...
... brought to the stage the energies , conventions , urban realism , situational ironies and ambiguous attitudes of the satiric verse of the late 1590s ; Beaumont and Fletcher brought to English drama the elegance , nervous movement ...
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... brought the stagecraft and illusionism of the masque and Court entertainments to the professional stage . From his operas the new art of the theatre passed to the Restoration . After the Restoration his Duke's Theatre specialised in ...
... brought the stagecraft and illusionism of the masque and Court entertainments to the professional stage . From his operas the new art of the theatre passed to the Restoration . After the Restoration his Duke's Theatre specialised in ...
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