{Low Drama}*[10th November 1990]

[Redbook8:109][19901110:1128]{Low Drama}*[10th November 1990]

19901110.1128

‘Only** in the France of Louis XIV did the dramatist attain the status of an honoured man of letters, and then only by adhering to the rigidly defined neoclassical standards of dramaturgy.’***

(On the other hand, Rubens, Bernini and Velázquez seemed to have achieved equivalent status without equivalent adherence to formulae.)****

*[cf last previous entry title]

**(ie with reference to the Renaissance & Baroque periods)

***– ibid, [Encyclopaedia Britannica 14:] 113

****per ibid [Encyclopaedia Britannica 14:113]

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