Two Tragedies: Hector and La Reine d'Escosse
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
Two Tragedies: Hector and La Reine d'Escosse
By (Author) Antoine de Montchrestien
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Bloomsbury Academic
1st January 2016
United Kingdom
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Literary studies: plays and playwrights
Literary studies: general
842.3
Physical Properties
Hardback
176
Width 156mm, Height 234mm
391g
Description
Antoine de Montchrestiens tragedies have been the object of increased critical attention over the years. This annotated edition makes two of his most interesting plays available Hector, often recognised as one of the masterpieces of French regular rhetorical tragedy, and La Reine dEscosse, a showcase of Montchrestiens concept of tragedy.
Author Bio
Antoine de Montchrestien was a 17th-century French soldier, dramatist, adventurer and economist and one of the founders of 17th-century French drama. C. N. Smith was lecturer in French at the University of East Anglia, UK.
