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Brockett, Oscar G.
History of the Theatre
. Eighth ed. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1999. Print.
Nagler, A. M.
A Source Book in Theatrical History
. New York: Dover Publications, 1952. (Kindle Edition for copied text).
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