Fortune and Fatality : Performing the Tragic in Early Modern France
ISBN: 9781443814928
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / Cambridge Scholars Publishing
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Subjects: Fine Arts; Literature;

As an aesthetic notion and dramatic genre, tragedy has enjoyed a privileged place in French culture, particularly during the early modern period when debates over its nature and philosophy reflected fascination with a style whose fundamental principles were drawn from ancient Greek sources. Through the works of Pierre Corneille and Jean Racine, routinely cited for an alleged regularity of form and content exemplifying the academic notion of French Classicism, tragedy has grounded the French l...


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