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Page 1134
... French Humanists hastened to write original trage- dies on the classical model . Étienne Jodelle wrote the first modern tragedy , Cléopâtre captive ( performed 1552 or 1553 ) , and the first modern comedy , Eugène ( 1552 ) . The chief ...
... French Humanists hastened to write original trage- dies on the classical model . Étienne Jodelle wrote the first modern tragedy , Cléopâtre captive ( performed 1552 or 1553 ) , and the first modern comedy , Eugène ( 1552 ) . The chief ...
Page 1135
... French language , while Pasquier was one of the first great French literary critics to write in French , and his Recherches de la France ( " French Studies " ) is a masterpiece of balanced criticism and good French . Among minor writers ...
... French language , while Pasquier was one of the first great French literary critics to write in French , and his Recherches de la France ( " French Studies " ) is a masterpiece of balanced criticism and good French . Among minor writers ...
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... French as Oh ! les beaux jours , 1963 ) , and Play ( 1963 ; performed in French as Comédie , 1964 ) , perhaps achieved a greater universality , although he re- fused tragic catharsis . Other successful dramatists in this new stream were ...
... French as Oh ! les beaux jours , 1963 ) , and Play ( 1963 ; performed in French as Comédie , 1964 ) , perhaps achieved a greater universality , although he re- fused tragic catharsis . Other successful dramatists in this new stream were ...
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