"Reenactment" Quotes from Famous Books
... and the drama find their beginnings in the simple reenactment of an actual series of events. Among Polynesians of to-day the dances still retain the rhythmic beat of the war-tread measure, and many of the motions of the arms are more or less conventionalized imitations of the act of striking with a club, or hurling a spear, and other acts. To such ... — The Doctrine of Evolution - Its Basis and Its Scope • Henry Edward Crampton |