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action actors Andromaque Antiochus appears Aristotle Aristotle's Athalie audience Bajazet Bérénice Britannicus century chapter characters Cinna classique en France Cléopâtre Comédie-Française comedy contemporary Corneille and Racine Corneille's Cornelian course Créon critics death Discours drama dramatists earlier early emotions Examen example five acts French classical tragedy French tragedy Hippolyte Horace Hôtel de Bourgogne important Iphigénie killing king later Le Cid least less livres loges Marais Médée Mithridate Molière Molière's Montdory neille Nicomède Palais-Royal Paris passions performance perhaps period Phèdre Pierre Corneille pity and fear play playwright plot Poetics Polyeucte Pompée Pratique du théâtre preface printed published Pyrrhus Racine's Racinian readers récit rival Rodogune Rodrigue rôle Roman Rotrou Saint-Evremond scenes seen seventeenth seventeenth-century France Sophonisbe spectators stage subject-matter theatre theatregoers Thésée Thomas Corneille Tite et Bérénice title-character tragi-comedies tragic troupe unity verisimilitude vraisemblance writes