The Continental Model: Selected French Critical Essays of the Seventeenth Century, in English TranslationScott Elledge, Donald Stephen Schier |
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Page 82
... actors , which must be upon a stage fixed and determined , for to make his actors appear in different places would render his play ridiculous by the want of probability , which is to be the foundation of it . This rule of unity of place ...
... actors , which must be upon a stage fixed and determined , for to make his actors appear in different places would render his play ridiculous by the want of probability , which is to be the foundation of it . This rule of unity of place ...
Page 102
... actors are doing in the intervals which separate the acts , nor even that they contribute to the action when they do not appear on the stage ; but it is necessary that each act leave us in the expectation of something which is to take ...
... actors are doing in the intervals which separate the acts , nor even that they contribute to the action when they do not appear on the stage ; but it is necessary that each act leave us in the expectation of something which is to take ...
Page 108
... actors and quite aside from performance . So that the reader may more easily experience that pleasure , his mind , like that of the spectator , must not be hindered , because the effort he is obliged to make to conceive and to imagine ...
... actors and quite aside from performance . So that the reader may more easily experience that pleasure , his mind , like that of the spectator , must not be hindered , because the effort he is obliged to make to conceive and to imagine ...
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Jean Chapelain | 3 |
On the Reading of the Old Romances c 1646 | 31 |
JeanFrançois Sarasin | 55 |
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