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THIRTY-FOURTH SITUATION REMORSE (The Culprit; the Victim or the Sin; the Interrogator) A 1 Remorse for an Unknown Crime: "Manfred" and other creations of Byron; the last of the great English dramatists, he was likewise the last adversary of Cant, which, having killed art in Spain under the name of the Inquisition, in England the first time under the name of Puritanism and in Germany under the name of Pietism, today presents itself in France, in the guise of ... Monsieur Berenger. Remorse for a Parricide: "The Eumenides" of Aeschylus; the "Orestes*' of Euripides, of Voltaire and of Alfieri; "Le Goitre" (Verhaeren). 3 Remorse for an Assassination: "(rime ami Punishment" Dostoievsky, L888); "Le CoeUT Ivevela- teur" after Poe, by Aumann, 1889). For a .Judicial Murder: "L'Eclaboussure" Geraldy, L910). (A) Remorse for the Murder of Husband or Wife: 'Therese Raquin" by Zola; "Pierrot, Assassin de sa l-'emme" pan] Marguentte, 18B8 . B l Remorse for a Fault of Love: "Made- leine" Zola, L889 , 2 Remorse for an Adultery: "Count Witold" Rzewuski, L889 ; "Le Scandale" Bataille, L909). With P> l there are connected, in one respect, the plays classed in A l of Situation XXVII. LIS