Engaging with recent thinking about performance, political theory and canon formation, this study addresses the significance of the formal changes in seventeent

An engaging, highly accessible and informative introduction to French literature from the Middle Ages to the present.

In Passing Judgment, Helene Bilis examines how an overlooked character-type--the royal judge--remained a constant of the tragic genre throughout the 17th centur

The first book-length study devoted to this topic, Mendacity and the Figure of the Liar in Seventeenth-Century French Comedy offers an important contribution to