Literary Criticism (1400-1800)

French Drama in the Age of Louis XIV | Further Reading

FURTHER READING

Baudin, Maurice. The Profession of King in Seventeenth Century French Drama. The Johns Hopkins Studies in Romance Literatures and Languages, vol. XXXVIII. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1941, 111 p.

Provides a detailed analysis of several topics related to the role of the king in seventeenth-century French drama, including the king as conqueror, and the role of the people in the drama of this time period.

Fuller, Edmund. "The Theatre of France," in A Pageant of the Theatre, pp. 137–160. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co., 1965.

Discusses the work of several seventeenth-century French dramatists including Jean Racine and Molière.

Howarth, William D.; McFarlane, Ian; and McGowan, Margaret, eds. Form and Meaning: Aesthetic Coherence in Seventeenth-Century French Drama. Amersham, England: Avebury Publishing Co., 1982, 203 p.

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