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... Aeschylus and Sophocles who read Aristotle , but he who read them . But he did read them with great profit , great profit to everyone who has come after him . And it is enough measurement of the universality of the truths about tragedy ...
... Aeschylus and Sophocles who read Aristotle , but he who read them . But he did read them with great profit , great profit to everyone who has come after him . And it is enough measurement of the universality of the truths about tragedy ...
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... ( Aeschylus ' Agamemnon , The Libation Pourers , and Eumenides , a late triolgy , employ the third character after Sophocles ' innovation — but in Aeschylus ' own way . ) When three characters are onstage to- gether , two of them can be ...
... ( Aeschylus ' Agamemnon , The Libation Pourers , and Eumenides , a late triolgy , employ the third character after Sophocles ' innovation — but in Aeschylus ' own way . ) When three characters are onstage to- gether , two of them can be ...
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... Aeschylus , Sophocles , Euripides , and Aristophanes . The same was true of the giants of the Elizabethan age in England : Shakespeare , Mar- lowe , Beaumont and Fletcher , Webster , Ford . Racine is held by some Frenchmen to be the ...
... Aeschylus , Sophocles , Euripides , and Aristophanes . The same was true of the giants of the Elizabethan age in England : Shakespeare , Mar- lowe , Beaumont and Fletcher , Webster , Ford . Racine is held by some Frenchmen to be the ...
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