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Maxims and Reflections on the Theatre

Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet

This book is in French.

The treatise of 1694 in which Bossuet answers Father Caffaro’s Dissertation in favour of the theatre: what the stage does with the passions, and the authority of the laws, the Fathers, Saint Thomas, Plato and Aristotle, and the profanation of feasts and fasts. Lachat edition (1864), volume XXVII.

Contents

Source: Typed transcription of volume XXVII, page 002 (Maximes et réflexions sur la comédie). The transcription loses the œ ligature; it is restored by a dictionary pass (ambiguous forms such as sœur/sur, mœurs/murs, vœu/vu decided from the Lachat OCR). Page-bottom notes of the Lachat edition are kept as footnotes.