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These conceptions and the manner in which they were transposed into poetry or engendered by poetic form are intrinsic to western life from the time of Aeschylus to that of Shakespeare.
And although they were, as I have indicated, under increasing strain at the time of Racine, they are still alive in his theatre.
They are the essential force behind the conventions of tragedy.
They are as decisively present in the Oresteia and Oedipus as in Macbeth, King Lear, and Phedre.
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