Old Touraine; the life and history of the famous chateâux (1900)
Cook, Theodore Andrea, Sir, 1867-1928 · New York, J. Pott & co. · leaf 208
een a somewhatsudden development in these primitive dramaticwritings; the laxity of public morals, and the de-cline in public religion which was emphasised by thegrowing struggles between Huguenots and Catho-lics, had produced their inevitable result in the na-tional literature; the mystery had… … ioid 165 death of the old religious theatre was the signal forthe rise of the literary theatre under the auspices ofRonsard and the Pleiad, and the efforts of thesepioneers in the dramatic art have been somewhattoo harshly condemned from a lack of due apprecia-tion of their strange position. The…
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