The Continental Model: Selected French Critical Essays of the Seventeenth Century, in English TranslationScott Elledge, Donald Stephen Schier |
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Page 85
... stage should represent a place immovable . It must , besides , be a place supposed open in the reality as it appears in the representation , for since the actors are supposed to go and come from one end of it to the other , there cannot ...
... stage should represent a place immovable . It must , besides , be a place supposed open in the reality as it appears in the representation , for since the actors are supposed to go and come from one end of it to the other , there cannot ...
Page 87
... stage not only almost as big as the earth , but likewise causing the same floor to represent at the same time things so far distant from one another and that without any apparent cause of so prodigious a change . We may likewise observe ...
... stage not only almost as big as the earth , but likewise causing the same floor to represent at the same time things so far distant from one another and that without any apparent cause of so prodigious a change . We may likewise observe ...
Page 97
... stage and let the action cool . From thence it comes likewise that all actors that appear with the pedantic character of teaching , such as are the governor of a young prince , a doctor , a governess , or the like , are still ill ...
... stage and let the action cool . From thence it comes likewise that all actors that appear with the pedantic character of teaching , such as are the governor of a young prince , a doctor , a governess , or the like , are still ill ...
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Jean Chapelain | 3 |
On the Reading of the Old Romances c 1646 | 31 |
JeanFrançois Sarasin | 55 |
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