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| Pagan Religious Observances. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| INDO-GERMANIC. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Greek and Roman. | Teutonic and Scandinavian. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Classical Drama | Nothing to correspond with Classical Drama. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Decayed Classical Drama. | Christianity. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Mimes. | Folk Drama. | Folk Drama. | Folk Drama. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| ` | ` | Miracle Plays. | ` | ` | |||||||||||||||||||
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| ` | ` | Renaissance. | Renaissance. | ` | ` | ||||||||||||||||||
| ` | Diminishing | ` | ` | Diminishing | ` | ||||||||||||||||||
| ` | Folk Drama of | ` | ` | Folk Drama of | ` | ||||||||||||||||||
| ` | Romance Countries. | ` | ` | Teutonic Countries. | ` | ||||||||||||||||||
| ` | ` | Elizabethan Drama: with folk elements | ` | ` | |||||||||||||||||||
| ` | ` | Literary Drama of Romance Countries. | and folk-colour but largely | ` | ` | ||||||||||||||||||
| ` | ` | reflective of Classical Drama. | ` | ` | |||||||||||||||||||
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My reading of the genealogy of the English epic drama is the meeting of two forces, Pagan and Christian, resulting in the concession of the miracle-play and mystery; that alongside the miracle-plays, the traditional embryonic drama continued to exist, competition with which led eventually to mixing or debasing the miracle-play representations and ultimately to their abolition; that at the Renaissance the popular actors became provided with written secular plays founded partly on traditional subjects; that in the composition of pageants or masques the popular pagan traditions became combined with reproductions of Greek and Roman
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