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Arte nuevo de hacer comedias en este tiempo


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“Since after all, it is the crowd who pays,
Why not content them when you write your plays?”

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Como las paga el vulgo, es justo
hablarle en necio para darle gusto.
Arte nuevo de hacer comedias en este tiempo, line 47. (1609). Translation from Marvin A. Carlson Theories of the Theatre (Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press, [1984] 1993) p. 62.

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