Literary Criticism (1400-1800)

French Drama in the Age of Louis XIV | Representative Works

REPRESENTATIVE WORKS

Bouscal, Guérin de
Le Gouvernement de Sanche Pansa (comedy) 1642

Boyer, Claude
Clotilde (tragedy) 1659

Campistron, Jean Galbert de
Andronic (tragedy) 1685

Corneille, Pierre
Le Cid (tragicomedy) 1637
Horace (tragedy) 1640
Don Sanche d'Aragon (tragicomedy) 1650

Corneille, Thomas
Timocrate (tragedy) 1656
Le Comte d'Essex (tragedy) 1678

Dancourt, Florent
Les Bourgeoises de qualité (comedy) 1700

Du Ryer, Pierre
Scevole (tragicomedy) 1647

Lesage, Alain-René
Tucaret (comedy) 1709

Molière
L'Ecole des Femmes (comedy) 1662
Le Tartuffe (comedy) 1664
Le Misanthrope (comedy) 1666
Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (comedy) 1670
* Psyché (comedy) 1671

Racine, Jean
Andromaque (tragedy) 1667
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