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Article: Le pathetique dans le theatre de Robert Garnier.(Book review)
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- Renaissance Quarterly
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- June 22, 2007
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Florence Dobby-Poirson. Le pathetique dans le theatre de Robert Garnier.
Bibliotheque Litteraire de la Renaissance 66. Paris: Honore Champion Editeur, 2006. 662 pp. index. bibl. [euro]119. ISBN: 2-7453-1419-X.
Robert Garnier (1545?-90) is universally regarded today as the foremost dramatist of the French Renaissance stage. His reputation in his own time was unrivaled, both in terms of his literary powers and his productivity, with seven tragedies and one tragicomedy to his credit. Because he lived in a time of unprecedented civil turmoil, the themes of his plays invariably mirrored current events. While early critics found Garnier's stagecraft to be ...