Description: This volume includes essays on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century plays, poems, novels, essays, and tales, such as Molière's comédies-ballets and Le Tartuffe; Corneille's Cinna and Rodogune; Racine's Phèdre; D'Aubigné's Les Tragiques; Montaigne's Essais; and Perrault's Contes, and other works. Among the contributors are Claude Abraham, Laurent Romero, G. Mallary Masters, Stephen Murphy, Nigel Smith, Timothy Eastridge, and Nancy McElveen.
