fabula
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One legacy of this fourth season is that comedy nerds of the future, looking back on the puzzles of it, will all have to learn to talk smartly about fabula and syuzhet.
From Slate ● Jun. 4, 2013
The pupil was left to make his own deduction and the formal "haec fabula docet" was omitted.
From A History of the McGuffey Readers by Vail, Henry Hobart
“Hæc fabula docet,” wrote Flaxius as he revised the proof with a red-lead pencil, for which he had paid a penny in the Calzolaio.
From Legends of Florence Collected from the People, First Series by Leland, Charles Godfrey
Kisel calmed him again, pacified him, gave reasons; but these speeches were, according to the words of the chamberlain of Lvoff, "surdo tyranno fabula dicta."
From With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. by Sienkiewicz, Henryk
It is too common an experience when foreigners treat such things, and I say this with the fullest awareness of the danger of De te fabula.
From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by Saintsbury, George
The later writers of the fabulae togatae seem for the most part to have reproduced the life and personages of the provincial towns in Italy.
From The Roman Poets of the Republic by Sellar, W. Y.
There still remain the fabulae Atellanae, so called from Atella, an Oscan town of Campania, and often mentioned as Osci Ludi.
From The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius by Cruttwell, Charles Thomas
Many of these salticae fabulae must have been mere adaptations of existing tragedies.
From Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal by Butler, Harold Edgeworth
But both fabulae palliatae and togatae, that is to say, comedies representing Greek and Roman life respectively, continued to be acted on the public stage.
From Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal by Butler, Harold Edgeworth
The intenser passions and emotions were not banished from the stage, but survived in the salticae fabulae and a peculiar species of dramatic recitation.
From Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal by Butler, Harold Edgeworth
As early as the 8th century fabliaux must have existed, since the faithful are forbidden to take pleasure in these fabulas inanes by the Paenitentiale of Egbert.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" by Various
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