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The thirty-six dramatic situations

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THIRTY-FOURTH SITUATION<br />

REMORSE<br />

(<strong>The</strong> Culprit; the Victim or the Sin; the Interrogator)<br />

A 1 Remorse for an Unknown Crime:<br />

"Manfred" and other creations of Byron; the last of<br />

the great English dramatists, he was likewise the last<br />

adversary of Cant, which, having killed art in Spain<br />

under the name of the Inquisition, in England the first<br />

time under the name of Puritanism and in Germany<br />

under the name of Pietism, today presents itself in<br />

France, in the guise of ... Monsieur Berenger.<br />

Remorse for a Parricide: "<strong>The</strong> Eumenides"<br />

of Aeschylus; the "Orestes*' of Euripides, of Voltaire<br />

and of Alfieri; "Le Goitre" (Verhaeren).<br />

3 Remorse for an Assassination: "(rime ami<br />

Punishment" Dostoievsky, L888); "Le CoeUT Ivevelateur"<br />

after Poe, by Aumann, 1889). For a .Judicial<br />

Murder: "L'Eclaboussure" Geraldy, L910).<br />

(A) Remorse for the Murder of Husband or<br />

Wife: '<strong>The</strong>rese Raquin" by Zola; "Pierrot, Assassin<br />

de sa l-'emme" pan] Marguentte, 18B8 .<br />

B l Remorse<br />

leine" Zola, L889 ,<br />

for a Fault of Love: "Made-<br />

2 Remorse for an Adultery: "Count Witold"<br />

Rzewuski, L889 ; "Le Scandale" Bataille, L909).<br />

With P> l there are connected, in one respect, the<br />

plays classed in A l of Situation XXVII.<br />

LIS

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