The Continental Model: Selected French Critical Essays of the Seventeenth Century, in English TranslationScott Elledge, Donald Stephen Schier |
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... tragedies . For this reason we must examine it according to the rules of the philoso- pher and judge from the way its separate parts conform to the rules how well the whole conforms to the idea of tragedy . Thus we shall follow the ...
... tragedies . For this reason we must examine it according to the rules of the philoso- pher and judge from the way its separate parts conform to the rules how well the whole conforms to the idea of tragedy . Thus we shall follow the ...
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... tragedy , divides it into six essential parts , of which the final two are related to the others and depend upon them . The first four are Plot , Character , Thought , and Diction ; the last two are Spectacle and Song . Since of these ...
... tragedy , divides it into six essential parts , of which the final two are related to the others and depend upon them . The first four are Plot , Character , Thought , and Diction ; the last two are Spectacle and Song . Since of these ...
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... Tragedy , of all parts of poesy , is that which Aristotle has most discussed , and where he appears most exact . He alleges that tragedy is a public lec- ture , without comparison more instructive than philosophy , because it teaches ...
... Tragedy , of all parts of poesy , is that which Aristotle has most discussed , and where he appears most exact . He alleges that tragedy is a public lec- ture , without comparison more instructive than philosophy , because it teaches ...
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Jean Chapelain | 3 |
On the Reading of the Old Romances c 1646 | 31 |
JeanFrançois Sarasin | 55 |
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