附註:Includes bibliographical references and index.
The amazing career of Pierre Corneille -- Tristan l'Hermite: la Mariane -- Du Ryer as a writer of tragedy -- Cosroès: Rotrou's best play -- The tragedies of Thomas Corneille -- Quinault's Astrate -- Racine's apprenticeship -- Racine's Andromaque -- Racine's Britannicus -- Racine's Bérénice -- Racine's Bajazet -- Racine's Mithridate -- Racine's Iphigénie -- Racine's Phèdre -- Racine's Athalie -- After Racine: Campistron -- Manlius Capitolinus -- Neo-classical tragedy in the eighteenth century -- Elizabethan and French-classical drama.