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One of the younger of them was a former lawyer from Rouen named Pierre Corneille who had given up the practice of law out of love for poetry and the stage . His outward appearance was not winning and his personality was of a proud and ...
One of the younger of them was a former lawyer from Rouen named Pierre Corneille who had given up the practice of law out of love for poetry and the stage . His outward appearance was not winning and his personality was of a proud and ...
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That is where Corneille ended his version , though there is considerably more elaboration to the Spanish story . Now the remarkable part of this , as Corneille presents it , is that it all takes place in twenty - four hours !
That is where Corneille ended his version , though there is considerably more elaboration to the Spanish story . Now the remarkable part of this , as Corneille presents it , is that it all takes place in twenty - four hours !
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This may have contributed to Racine's decision to leave the theatre , which he did more definitely than Corneille had done . In the last twenty years of his life he turned from his worldly ways back to the Church and wrote little except ...
This may have contributed to Racine's decision to leave the theatre , which he did more definitely than Corneille had done . In the last twenty years of his life he turned from his worldly ways back to the Church and wrote little except ...
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The Theatre of Greece | 6 |
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