Excerpt from Victory Pageant: The Pageant of Light For centuries there has been a groping desire for the Community Masque or Civic Drama. Lt dates back to the early Greek drama, where the Chorus would act as the Voice of the scenes being enacted by groups, either on the stage or in a processional among the spectators. Our modern pageantry began with the early Eng lish Processionals and Christmas Pantomimes, but it is now being developed along rather different lines, both in Europe and America. Prominent authors in Eng land and here, have written beautiful examples of the Pageant and Masque, in the production of which set stages are used, in some cases exclusively, although in others, the processional is still clung to as an addition to the acts on the stage. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.