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... Rabelais's endings are of the essence of comedy ; they are as arbitrary as Molière's . Once the comic world has unveiled its actors and made them strut and dance before us , there remains nothing to do but to call down the curtain ...
... Rabelais's endings are of the essence of comedy ; they are as arbitrary as Molière's . Once the comic world has unveiled its actors and made them strut and dance before us , there remains nothing to do but to call down the curtain ...
Page 422
... Rabelais's original readers would not of course have compared what he says with what Plutarch wrote . For us today the clue is a great help . By comparing Rabelais's French with Plutarch's Greek we divert our minds towards important ...
... Rabelais's original readers would not of course have compared what he says with what Plutarch wrote . For us today the clue is a great help . By comparing Rabelais's French with Plutarch's Greek we divert our minds towards important ...
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... Rabelais at Fontenay - le - Comte , 17 ; a maître des requêtes , 19 , 121 ; dedicatee of Rabelais's edition of Cuspidius , 21 ; one of Rabelais's legal friends , 36 , 74 , 81 ; his Tes gunaikeias phutles , against Tiraqueau , 19 , 47 ...
... Rabelais at Fontenay - le - Comte , 17 ; a maître des requêtes , 19 , 121 ; dedicatee of Rabelais's edition of Cuspidius , 21 ; one of Rabelais's legal friends , 36 , 74 , 81 ; his Tes gunaikeias phutles , against Tiraqueau , 19 , 47 ...
Contents
Chapter One Humanist Comedy | 1 |
Chapter Two Rabelais before Pantagruel | 15 |
Chapter Three Pantagruel | 24 |
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