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Edmund Fuller. tragedy in that " the one seeks to imitate worse , but the other better men than are . " Yet , he adds , comedy does not seek to represent all the vices of men " but the ridiculous only . " The chief end of tragedy , he ...
Edmund Fuller. tragedy in that " the one seeks to imitate worse , but the other better men than are . " Yet , he adds , comedy does not seek to represent all the vices of men " but the ridiculous only . " The chief end of tragedy , he ...
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... tragedy in his Poetics . Indeed , this style of tragédie pathétique , as it was called , was more influenced by the tragedies of the Roman Seneca than by the Greek dramatists who had enormously greater simplicity and vigor . The Cid was ...
... tragedy in his Poetics . Indeed , this style of tragédie pathétique , as it was called , was more influenced by the tragedies of the Roman Seneca than by the Greek dramatists who had enormously greater simplicity and vigor . The Cid was ...
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... tragedy , the Nicomède of Corneille . Tragedy was not their true talent , particularly in comparison with the polished tragedians of the Hôtel de Bourgogne who were still the king's own players . Members of that company were in the ...
... tragedy , the Nicomède of Corneille . Tragedy was not their true talent , particularly in comparison with the polished tragedians of the Hôtel de Bourgogne who were still the king's own players . Members of that company were in the ...
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