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A26187 The whole art of the stage containing not only the rules of the drammatick art, but many curious observations about it, which may be of great use to the authors, actors, and spectators of plays : together with much critical learning about the stage and plays of the antients / written in French by the command of Cardinal Richelieu by Monsieur Hedelin, Abbot of Aubignac, and now made English.; Pratique du théâtre. English. 1684. Aubignac, François-Hédelin, abbé d', 1604-1676. 1684 (1684) Wing A4185; ESTC R16044 179,268 322

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