Six Restoration and French Neoclassic Plays
Subtitle: Phedre, The Miser, Tartuffe, All for Love, The Country Wife, Love for Love
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: October 15, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 478
ISBN-13: 9780312214005
Subjects: Early Modern English Drama (1500-1700); Drama; Plays / Drama; Plays; Anthologies (multiple authors); Continental European; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Performing Arts / Theater / General; 17th century; English drama; French Drama; History and criticism; Restoration, 1660-1700; Translations into English
First sentence: Orphaned at the age of four in 1643, Racine was brought up by various relatives who were adherents of the strict Jansenist movement within the Catholic church.