" That text is Discourse on the Classical Unities.
This author put forth a "theatrical fiction" akin to a "legal fiction," by describing a room in multiple apartments at once in which characters can speak in secrecy. That idea was put forth in a text that attacked both Aristotle's critique of the chariot deus ex machina in Medea and his insistence that "complication," and "resolution" are the two components of a plot, because this author contends complication "depends entirely on the imagination of the poet." That text is Discourse on the Classical Unities. That discourse was written after one of his plays was the subject of a smear campaign by (*) Cardinal Richelieu and the French Academy, even though he would regain the favor of both by writing a play in which the title figure faces the three Curiatii brothers. In that first play, the title character and Don Sancho duel for Chimene. For 10 points, name this author that adapted a poem about a Spanish soldier into Le Cid.  [Ike]
This author put forth a "theatrical fiction" akin to a "legal fiction," by describing a room in multiple apartments at once in which characters can speak in secrecy.
Pierre {Corneille}