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  • PRINCIPLES OF TRAGEDY
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    PRINCIPLES OF TRAGEDY
    GEOFFREY BRERETON
    What is tragedy? What does the term imply? The word had outgrown its original context of literature and art and acquired wider and looser meanings. Originally published in 1968, Dr Brereton seeks to establish the basis of a definition which will hold good on various planes and over a wide range of dramatic and other literature. Various theories are examined, beginning with Aris...

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  • JEAN RACINE
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    JEAN RACINE
    GEOFFREY BRERETON
    Racine the practising dramatist had been in some danger of being crowded out from the numerous books on his psychology and style. In this critical study of the man and his work, first published in 1951 and this slightly revised edition originally in 1973, Dr Brereton’s guiding principle has been to make the factual basis as accurate as it can be in the light of modern research....

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  • AN INTRODUCTION TO THE FRENCH POETS
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    AN INTRODUCTION TO THE FRENCH POETS
    GEOFFREY BRERETON
    The French poetry of some five centuries is here surveyed in a series of studies of the work and personality of individual poets from Villon to the present day. Each chapter is primarily concerned with establishing the ‘literary identity’ of the poet or poets with whom it deals: the work of each is outlined and related to the historical and biographical circumstances in which i...

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  • FRENCH TRAGIC DRAMA IN THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES
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    FRENCH TRAGIC DRAMA IN THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES
    GEOFFREY BRERETON
    Originally published in 1973, the history of French tragedy and tragicomedy from their origins in the sixteenth century to the last years of Louis XIV’s reign is here surveyed in a single volume. Beginning with a brief account of the development of drama from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance, Dr Brereton examines the plays as types of drama, the circumstances in which they we...

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  • FRENCH COMIC DRAMA FROM THE SIXTEENTH TO THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
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    FRENCH COMIC DRAMA FROM THE SIXTEENTH TO THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
    GEOFFREY BRERETON
    In tracing the course of French comedy from the Renaissance, through the age of Louis XIV and the eighteenth century, to the eve of the Revolution, originally published in 1977, Geoffrey Brereton shows how it evolved from the crude farces and experimental plays of the sixteenth century to become a rich and highly sophisticated dramatic genre. The main emphasis is on the work of...

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