The Continental Model: Selected French Critical Essays of the Seventeenth Century, in English TranslationScott Elledge, Donald Stephen Schier |
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Page 91
... observation to be made here , which is that the time which we allow the representation may be spent many other ways ... observed by those that came after him as by the authors of those tragedies which carry the name of Seneca , which ...
... observation to be made here , which is that the time which we allow the representation may be spent many other ways ... observed by those that came after him as by the authors of those tragedies which carry the name of Seneca , which ...
Page 93
... observed in a play of twenty - four hours ? Would it not be a necessity that the persons acting should sleep and eat and busy themselves in many things which would not be of the subject of the play , and though the poet should say ...
... observed in a play of twenty - four hours ? Would it not be a necessity that the persons acting should sleep and eat and busy themselves in many things which would not be of the subject of the play , and though the poet should say ...
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... observed in the discourses of heroes and the difference of their characters ; upon the good and ill usage of the tenderness of love in trag- edies , which is rejected too severely by those that ascribe everything to the motions of pity ...
... observed in the discourses of heroes and the difference of their characters ; upon the good and ill usage of the tenderness of love in trag- edies , which is rejected too severely by those that ascribe everything to the motions of pity ...
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Jean Chapelain | 3 |
On the Reading of the Old Romances c 1646 | 31 |
JeanFrançois Sarasin | 55 |
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