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... action of one person , or of two that are mutually dependent , and the plot of an epic should contain one action by one person . " Willingly and willfully epic and drama ac- cepted the " foreshortening " of Aristotelian fable , time ...
... action of one person , or of two that are mutually dependent , and the plot of an epic should contain one action by one person . " Willingly and willfully epic and drama ac- cepted the " foreshortening " of Aristotelian fable , time ...
Page 79
... action that could range freely from outer to inner stage and evolve , through adventurous movements in space , every sort of composition . Being no scientist or academician , Shakespeare could hardly have gone about writing his plays by ...
... action that could range freely from outer to inner stage and evolve , through adventurous movements in space , every sort of composition . Being no scientist or academician , Shakespeare could hardly have gone about writing his plays by ...
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... action be great , if the actors be heroic , if the passions be excited . . . . What is most advantageous is that I found it extremely simple . For a long while I had wished to attempt a tragedy with that simplicity of action which was ...
... action be great , if the actors be heroic , if the passions be excited . . . . What is most advantageous is that I found it extremely simple . For a long while I had wished to attempt a tragedy with that simplicity of action which was ...
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