The dramatic unities influenced later writers , in particular the french seventeenth-century classical dramatists corneille and racine , although the latter stretched the unity of time to 24 hours , and place to cover a whole house or town rather than a room or street .
At that moment , he was thinking that the manuel du baccalaureat was a stupid book , and that it must have been drawn up by rare idiots , to allow of three tragedies of racine and only one comedy of moliere being analyzed therein as masterpieces of the human mind .