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Theatrical Decadence
Towse, J. Ranken | February 14, 1918 issue

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The article discusses about the degeneracy of the British stage. The old stock companies, with which the so-called stock companies of the present have nothing, or very little, in common, having each its own province and being rivals, supplied the two things necessary to the creation of good all-round actors, education in every branch of the drama, from farce to poetic tragedy, and wholesome competition. All the players in them were exercised in an infinite variety of parts in all kinds of drama, as enumerated by Polonius, a verbose in a tragedy by William Shakespeare.

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THEATER; TRAGEDY; DRAMATISTS; DRAMA in education; COMEDY; PERFORMING arts; GREAT Britain
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