Title: Kingdom of disorder
First published: 1999
Description: "In this revisionist study of the poetics of tragedy during the French classical age, John Lyons challenges prevailing notions of a coherent, unified, and widely accepted "classical doctrine." By returning to major, yet recently neglected texts, Lyons analyzes conceptions of tragedy that will surprise many readers familiar with the canonical tragedies of seventeenth-century France, tragedies sometimes wrongly assumed to have been constructed according to the precepts of a community of theorists.".

"This reassessment of French classical ideas about tragedy will be valuable to students and scholars of French literature, drama, and cultural history."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: French drama, History and criticism, French drama (Tragedy), Classical influences, Classicism, French drama, history and criticism
Places: France
Time periods: 17th century
LC classification: PQ561 .L96 1999