Robert Garnier and the Themes of Political Tragedy in the Sixteenth Century

by Gillian Jondorf

Book Overview

Robert Garnier (1545-1590) was an early writer of tragedies in French. He has suffered much from being compared with the great tragedians of the seventeenth century, being taken as a crude predecessor of their mature art. In this 1969 text Mrs Jondorf studies him as a sixteenth-century writer, attuned to the thought and art of his own time. In particular she is concerned with his extension of the Senecan tradition of tragedy, and his pre-occupations...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521155355
• ISBN13: 9780521155359
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 174 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"