“How all their plays be neither right tragedies, nor right comedies, mingling kings and clowns, not because the matter so carrieth it, but thrust in the clown by head and shoulders to play a part in majestical matters”. What term does Philip Sidney use to characterize such plays and which of the unities of Aristotle do they violate ?

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“How all their plays be neither right tragedies, nor right comedies, mingling kings and clowns, not because the matter so carrieth it, but thrust in the clown by head and shoulders to play a part in majestical matters”. <br /> What term does Philip Sidney use to characterize such plays and which of the unities of Aristotle do they violate ?






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