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hopelessly crippled and that his evident intentions and effects are<br />
hopelessly lost unless interpreted in this spirit : then we relegate<br />
Plautine drama to a low plane of broad farce, where verisimilitude<br />
to life becomes wholly unnecessary because undesirable ; where the<br />
,canons of dramatic art become inoperative ; where, contrary to<br />
what K6rting says, we are not asked to believe that "everything is<br />
bappening in a perfectly natural manner" ; where the poet may<br />
stick at nothing provided the laugh be forthcoming ; where all the<br />
apparently absurd conventions of palliatae cease to be absurd,<br />
vanish into thin air a'nd become unamenable to literary criticism,<br />
inasmuch as they are all only part of the laugh-compelling scheme.<br />
This is the solvent that we propose. To establish this, let us pro<br />
.ceed to an examination of the internal mechanism of the plays.<br />
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