Vulgar words in The Theory of the Theatre (Page 1)

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bastard x 2
make love x 3
            

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Harlequin made love to Columbine and quarreled with Pantaloon in new lines every night; and the drama gained both spontaneity and freshness from the fact that it was created anew at each performance.

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The reason why there is no love scene between Charles Surface and Maria in _The School for Scandal_ is that Sheridan knew that the actor and the actress who were cast for these respective roles were incapable of making love gracefully upon the stage.

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It will be evident to them that the actor made love luringly and died effectively, that he was capable of lyric reading and staccato gasconade, that he had a burly humor and that touch of sentiment that trembles into tears.

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In his best play, _Antony_, which exhibits the struggle of a bastard to establish himself in the so-called best society, Dumas brought the discussion home to his own country and his own period.

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It has dealt with courtesans (_La Dame Aux Camélias_), demi-mondaines (_Le Demi-Monde_), erring wives (_Frou-Frou_), women with a past (_The Second Mrs. Tanqueray_), free lovers (_The Notorious Mrs. Ebbsmith_), bastards (_Antony_; _Le Fils Naturel_), ex-convicts (_John Gabriel Borkman_), people with ideas in advance of their time (_Ghosts_), and a host of other characters that are usually considered dangerous to society.

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