And the marvel is that this model influences not only the tone, but the whole carriage and gait.

Again, what is the aim of multiplied rehearsals?
To establish a balance among the different talents of the actors.

The supreme excellence of one actor does not recompense you for the mediocrity of the others, which is brought by that very superiority into disagreeable prominence.

Again, accent is easier to imitate than movement, but movements are what strike us most violently.

Hence a law to which there is no exception, namely, under pain of being cold, to make your denouement an action and not a narrative.[279] One of the strongest satires on the reigning dramatic style, Diderot found in the need that the actor had of the mirror.