French Tragic Drama in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

By Geoffrey Brereton

Book Overview

Originally published in 1973, the history of French tragedy and tragicomedy from their origins in the sixteenth century to the last years of Louis XIV's reign is here surveyed in a single volume. Dr Brereton examines the plays as types of drama, the circumstances in which they were produced and their reception by contemporaries.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032251514
• ISBN13: 9781032251516
• Release Date: April 2022
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 318 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"