Dom Casmurro 72.2 · 72.2

Pano cai, apagam-se as luzes

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pano cai, apagam-se as luzes, e os espectadores vão dormir. Nesse gênero há porventura alguma coisa que reformar, e eu proporia, como ensaio, que as peças começassem pelo fim. Otelo mataria a si e a Desdêmona no primeiro ato, os

Curtain falls, lights are turned off, and the spectators go to sleep. In that genre there is perhaps something to reform, and I would propose, as an experiment, that the plays began by the end. Othello would kill himself and Desdemona in the first act, the

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The narrator describes the end of a play and proposes a reform.

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The narrator describes the conventional end of a play and suggests a reform: plays should start at the end, using Othello as an example.

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