The Continental Model: Selected French Critical Essays of the Seventeenth Century, in English TranslationScott Elledge, Donald Stephen Schier |
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... action is described as having occurred ; and they proceeded in this way for several reasons : the first , in order to restrict the course of the action to one year , a period whose limits were accepted by all those who wished ...
... action is described as having occurred ; and they proceeded in this way for several reasons : the first , in order to restrict the course of the action to one year , a period whose limits were accepted by all those who wished ...
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... action of the stage is to be continued and not inter- rupted or broken . Now that could not be in a play of twenty - four hours ; nature could not without some rest endure so long an action , since all that men can commonly do is to be ...
... action of the stage is to be continued and not inter- rupted or broken . Now that could not be in a play of twenty - four hours ; nature could not without some rest endure so long an action , since all that men can commonly do is to be ...
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... ACTION , TIME , AND PLACE The two preceding discourses and the critical examination of the plays which my first two volumes contain have furnished me so many opportu- nities to explain my thoughts on these matters that there would be ...
... ACTION , TIME , AND PLACE The two preceding discourses and the critical examination of the plays which my first two volumes contain have furnished me so many opportu- nities to explain my thoughts on these matters that there would be ...
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Jean Chapelain | 3 |
On the Reading of the Old Romances c 1646 | 31 |
JeanFrançois Sarasin | 55 |
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