... sought for dramas to follow only the laws of nature and no systems set by society. He felt that the rules of the past, such as the rules Aristotle put forth in Poetics, had reason in their time, but that "the virginity of one age becomes the chastity of the next- (http://www.bartleby.com/39/40.html), meaning that the choice of one age's virtue becomes the unwanted burden of the next. However, despite his fiery words ... and unscrupulous characters to thrive at the expense of lesser and more honest citizens- (Brockett 275). The play and the controversy surrounding it left LeSage estrange...

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