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title	:	Studies in French-classical Tragedy
author	:	Lockert, Lacy.
publisher	:	Vanderbilt University Press
isbn10 | asin	:
print isbn13	:	9780826510495
ebook isbn13	:	9780585137964
language	:	English
subject	Racine, Jean,--1639-1699, French drama--17th century--History and criticism, French drama (Tragedy)--History and criticism.
publication date	:	1958
lcc	:	PQ563.L6eb
ddc	:	842.409
subject	:	Racine, Jean,--1639-1699, French drama--17th century--History and criticism, French drama (Tragedy)--History and criticism.

Page 1 Studies in French-Classical Tragedy

Page 2 Translations by Lacy Lockert (Vanderbilt University Press) THE CHIEF RIVALS OF CORNEILLE AND RACINE In preparation: MOOT PLAYS OF CORNEILLE (Princeton University Press) THE INFERNO OF DANTE THE BEST PLAYS OF RACINE THE CHIEF PLAYS OF CORNEILLE

Page 3 Studies in French-Classical Tragedy By Lacy Lockert Nashville THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY PRESS 1958

Page 4 STUDIES IN FRENCH-CLASSICAL TRAGEDY Copyright 1958 by Lacy Lockert Second Printing 1967

Page 5 To MARY BELLE HOPKINS who, when someone asked her in speaking of me, "Does he know he is not your brother?" replied, "I hope nobody tells him."

Page 7 Contents Introduction 9 I. The Amazing Career of Pierre Corneille 27 II. Tristan L'Hermite: la Mariane 111 III. Du Ryer as a Writer of Tragedy 140 IV. Cosros: Rotrou's Best Play 185 V. The Tragedies of Thomas Corneille 216 VI. Quinault's Astrate 253 VII. Racine's Apprenticeship 280 VIII. Racine's Andromaque 295 IX. Racine's Britannicus 304 X. Racine's Brnice 310 XI. Racine's Bajazet 328 XII. Racine's Mithridate 348 XIII. Racine's Iphignie 366 XIV. Racine'sS Phdre 388 XV. Racine's Athalie 404 XVI. After Racine: Campistron 415 XVII. Manlius Capitolinus 456 XVIII. Neo-Classical Tragedy in the Eighteenth Century 476 XIX. Elizabethan and French-Classical Drama 509 Index 523

Page 9 Introduction Each of the studies contained in this book is practically a separate article, more or less independent of the others.1 I have brought together here all that I have written about French-classical tragedy, whether previously published or not, that each part of it may be read in connection with the rest, and that some treatment of the whole subjectof the major and also the chief minor dramatistsmay be found in a single volume. None of the chapters on these lesser playwrights has appeared earlier,2 and those chapters constitute more than half of the book. Though seventeenth-century France, like the England of Elizabeth and the first two Stuarts, was notable for one 1 They were not written in the order in which they stand. The chapters on Andromaque, Britannicus, Phdre, and Athalie were the earliest in date; they are reprinted, with slight alterations, from my book, The Best Plays of Racine (Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1936), where they serve as introductions to the translations of these dramas. "Racine's Brnice," published in The Romanic Review in February, 1939, was written next, and then the chapters dealing with Tristan l'Hermite, Rotrou, and Iphignieall before 1940. The first, long chapter, on Corneille, which I have used in a shortened form for my introduction in The Chief Plays of Corneille (Princeton, 1952), was among those done later; the very last of all were the chapters on Bajazet and Mithridate. These two chapters and those on Brnice and Iphignie serve, little modified, as the introductions in my

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