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Peroration - A Definition

The peroration is the bellow of the mediocre actor upon the last verse of the tirade.

Francisque Sarcey, Recollections of Middle Life (1892)[1]

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[1] Francisque Sarcey, Recollections of Middle Life, tr. Elisabeth Luther Cary (London: William Heinemann [Scholar Select Reprint], 1893), p. 162.  Originally published in 1892 as Souvenirs d’âge mûr. Sarcey was France's most prominent drama critic over four decades in the last half of the nineteenth century.