The Continental Model: Selected French Critical Essays of the Seventeenth Century, in English TranslationScott Elledge, Donald Stephen Schier |
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Page 61
... Plautus's Amphitryon covers nine full months , involving as it does the love of Jupiter for Alcmena , her preg- nancy , and the birth of Hercules as well as his conception . All this is the result of Plautus's eagerness to present the ...
... Plautus's Amphitryon covers nine full months , involving as it does the love of Jupiter for Alcmena , her preg- nancy , and the birth of Hercules as well as his conception . All this is the result of Plautus's eagerness to present the ...
Page 87
... Plautus , the poet , explaining the place of the scene , says that he begs of the Romans a little space in the middle of their noble buildings to transport thither the town of Athens without the help of architects . Upon which Samuel ...
... Plautus , the poet , explaining the place of the scene , says that he begs of the Romans a little space in the middle of their noble buildings to transport thither the town of Athens without the help of architects . Upon which Samuel ...
Page 95
... Plautus makes Amphitryon return victorious that very night that Alcmena is brought to bed of Hercules . But that which one must particularly have a care of is not to conjoin the time of the incidents with so much precipitation that ...
... Plautus makes Amphitryon return victorious that very night that Alcmena is brought to bed of Hercules . But that which one must particularly have a care of is not to conjoin the time of the incidents with so much precipitation that ...
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Jean Chapelain | 3 |
On the Reading of the Old Romances c 1646 | 31 |
JeanFrançois Sarasin | 55 |
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