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... play was denounced as breaking all the established dramatic rules and conventions . Richelieu himself was especially displeased , since the play glorified Spain at a time when France was engaged in a bitter quarrel with her neighbour ...
... play was denounced as breaking all the established dramatic rules and conventions . Richelieu himself was especially displeased , since the play glorified Spain at a time when France was engaged in a bitter quarrel with her neighbour ...
Page 55
... play is a brilliant attack on the hypocrisy and deceit which sometimes are hidden under the cloak of a sham devotion . It raised an unprecedented storm in many quarters and the Church authorities condemned both the play and its author ...
... play is a brilliant attack on the hypocrisy and deceit which sometimes are hidden under the cloak of a sham devotion . It raised an unprecedented storm in many quarters and the Church authorities condemned both the play and its author ...
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... play should fail , and in an attempt to wreck it they presented another play on the same subject at a rival theatre , and then by booking as many seats as possible in Racine's theatre for several successive nights and leaving them empty ...
... play should fail , and in an attempt to wreck it they presented another play on the same subject at a rival theatre , and then by booking as many seats as possible in Racine's theatre for several successive nights and leaving them empty ...
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