Excerpt from Histrionic Montreal: Annals of the Montreal Stage, With Biographical and Critical Notices of the Plays and Players of a Century It does not take a great stretch of imagination to conceive the idea of the origin of the drama - a step from the drama of nature to the drama of humanity - a stride from the natural to the imitative - and so with the existence of primitive man, when first surrounded with scenes and objects, we have the origin of the drama. As the centuries continued to roll back Upon the past, and as ...
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Excerpt from Histrionic Montreal: Annals of the Montreal Stage, With Biographical and Critical Notices of the Plays and Players of a Century It does not take a great stretch of imagination to conceive the idea of the origin of the drama - a step from the drama of nature to the drama of humanity - a stride from the natural to the imitative - and so with the existence of primitive man, when first surrounded with scenes and objects, we have the origin of the drama. As the centuries continued to roll back Upon the past, and as the dawn of civilization receded, man advanced. Not satisfied with merely imitating his own acts, he soon acquired the art of reproducing the acts of his fel lows, and by the time we arrive to Greece and Rome we find man an intellectual being, and the drama fully developed From this it is easily traced from the written records. From the ancient it is plain reading to the mediaeval age from the mediaeval to the Elizabethan; and from the Elizabethan to the Victorian. Not until Cosmos decays, or when it changes its features wherein man must disappear before the formation of a new genesis, then, and then only, will the drama cease to be. Thespis, inventor of the dramatic art, Conveyed his vagrant actors in a cart High o'er the crowd the mimic tribe appeared, And played and sung, with lees of wine besmeared. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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