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... of Dionysus. Within this theatrical space, tragic plots played out in front of a facade the skene, or scene build­ ing whose principal architectural feature was a door or set ofdoors leading into an internal space that remained invisible to the audience. That space, sometimes, though not necessarily...

... working-class inter­ ests. The genre s deployment of inner and outer constitutes sectarianism as what (de)animates living rooms in Northern Ireland. Bassi and Weber each discover spaces that comprise and multiply family scenes as theatre, with Bassi s skene expanding on Helgerson s domus, as re­ defined...

...: but, wou d you divide and choose too ? our Colledge Customs allow not that, and I shou d account my self most happy if I might change with you; for, I have alwaies observ d the thred of Life to be like other threds or skenes of silk, full of snarles and incumbrances: Happy is he, whose bottom [i.e., skein...

... inspiration for Marmion. A kick from a comrade s horse which laid him up for three days provided leisure for writing the first canto. Skene pic­ tures the soldier-bard spurring his black charger Lenore into the waves between periods of drill as he composed lines which were later to be incorporated in the poem...