Actually, late sixteenth-century playgoers, actors and playwrights considered the stage as a set of funerary items and buildings. |
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What the theater today can show for us realistically, with massive scenery and electric lighting, Elizabethan playgoers had to imagine. |
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What her true intention was with this design, playgoers hypothesize to no avail. |
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Either it's an instant hit with playgoers or it leaves them scratching their head during intermission. |
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Such stuff may not have seemed so trifling to women playgoers, since women exerted greater control over movable objects than did men. |
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Attentive playgoers conclude that the-not-fully-transferred pain of loss kills Brabantio. |
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We do know that history plays were often regarded by contemporaries as capable of inspiring playgoers to imitate the momentous action taking place on stage. |
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Last year at the Gate Theatre, Dublin, local playgoers roared at every move made by Ardal O'Hanlon in Ronald Harwood's version of this celebrated French comedy. |
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Today, it takes three theaters-an outdoor replica of a Tudor playhouse and two indoor venues-to seat all the playgoers who flock to the Utah Shakespearean Festival. |
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However, when playgoers are asked to sit back and accept all that's not rational, the narrative wrecking ball makes a direct hit and everything comes crashing down. |
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But because we are in a theatre and conditioned as playgoers, we start to observe the musicians' movements. |
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While Corneille retained his partisans among older playgoers, it was Jean Racine who appealed to a new generation. |
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And, like that map, his works have helped readers and playgoers for four centuries to get their bearings. |
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Younger playgoers flocked to see him, and in 1860, in a series of brilliant performances in New York, he challenged and overcame the dramatic supremacy of the veteran Forrest. |
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The successful man wins his place in the world as old playgoers used to get into the theatre on first night: by making for the thickest of the crush and resisting the tendency to edge out into the place of ease. |
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Shakespeare settles his playgoers, and also enhances the fatality of the plot, giving it something of the tense, unalterable ananke of the Greek myths. |
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Such dubieties no doubt sell newspapers, but they also constitute a view of the stage that reported the entire playhouse and united the activities of actors and playgoers. |
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Playgoers, in general, tend to show resistance when the chosen theme of a piece conks you on the head like a sledgehammer. |
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