The Chief Rivals of Corneille and Racine

by Lacy Lockert Jr. and Charles Lacy Lockert Jr.

Here are blank verse translations of ten of the best tragedies by French dramatists contemporary with Corneille and Racine, and two by the most noted successors. No great dramatist can be properly understood and appreciated without some knowledge of the lesser playwrights surrounding him. The fact has long been realized as regards to Shakespeare; but the lesser figures of the great age of French drama--men comparable to such Elizabethans as Middleton...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826510477
• ISBN13: 9780826510471
• Release Date: January 1956
• Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
• Length: 605 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 5.9" x 8.8"