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Isn’t the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please? - Molière [Jean Baptiste Poquelin]
Attribution: Molière [Jean Baptiste Poquelin] (1622–1673), French comic playwright. Dorante, in La Critique de L’Ecole des Femmes (School for Wives Criticized), sc. 6 (1663). Dorante speaks of the classical rules of dramatic unity.

Categories: Comic Playwright, Literature, Theater, Theories

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