French Drama in the Age of Louis XIV

French Drama in the Age of Louis XIV Criticism

• Introduction
• Representative Works
• Overview
  • The Classical French Theater
  • The Introduction of a Regular Stage Censorship
  • Audiences
  • The Tensions of Classicism in the French Theatre of the Seventeenth Century
• Tragedy
• Comedy
  • Baroque or Burlesque? Aspects of French Comic Theatre in the Early Seventeenth Century
  • Comedy
  • An introduction to Restoration Comedy, 1660–1720
  • Moral Instruction and Comedy
• Tragicomedy
• Further Reading