A Field of Honor
Subtitle: Writers, Court Culture, and Public Theater in French Literary Life from Racine to the Revolution (Gutenberg-e)
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: March 30, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 387
ISBN-13: 9780231124607
Subjects: Plays & playwrights: 16th to 18th centuries; Theatre, drama; History; History - General History; French; History: World; France; Continental European; Western Europe - General; History / Europe / Western
First sentence: Pierre Corneille today stands, with his near contemporaries Jean Racine and Molière, atop the French literary canon, but during his own lifetime he held a much more ambiguous position.