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Publication,ntry dwellers, this is a drop in the ocean. But for a city of half a million inhabitants it is no mean feat and probably differs little from the proportion of Parisians who actually see the opening run of an important new play staged today. Then as now, theatre attendance was a minority interest.

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Characters, as we have seen, writers of French classical tragedy followed their predecessors in choosing as protagonists the kings, queens, emperors and other persons in authority who had been deemed suitable from Aeschylus onwards.

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-91442-3y seventeenth-century playwrights conceived of their task and which continues to puzzle English-speaking readers of French classical tragedy to this day. If for no other reason, it is worth devoting a few pages to the unities of time, place and action.