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Representative English Comedies, v. 1. From the beginnings to Shakespeare

Note 992 — George Peele THE OLD WIVES' TALE

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Fröhliche Wissenschaft, p. 109 f. So in his Geburt der Tragödie, p. 89, speaking of the prologue as used by Euripides, which told in advance the action of the play, Nietzsche asserts that the Athenians were less interested in the plot than in the pathos of situations and the rhetoric of the players.

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