CHAPTER I
EARLY CHURCH DRAMA ON THE CONTINENT
The old Classical Drama of Greece and Rome died, surfeited with horror and uncleanness. Centuries rolled by, and then, when the Old Drama was no more remembered save by the scholarly few, there was born into the world the New Drama. By a curious circumstance its nurse was the same Christian Church that had thrust its predecessor into the grave.
A man may dig his spade haphazard into the earth and...
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