Dramatic Essays of the Neoclassic Age
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Dramatic Essays of the Neoclassic Age

  1. 412 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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About this book

A collection of critical dramatic essays from the neoclassic period beginning in 1660 with the Restoration period in England and the influence of French neoclassic ideas. Includes essays from Pierre Corneille, John Dryden, Saint-Evremond, John Milton, and others.

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Table of contents

  1. Preface
  2. Contents
  3. Introduction
  4. Pierre Corneille 1606-1684
  5. Thomas Shadwell 1642?-1692
  6. John Dryden 1631-1700
  7. Saint-Évremond 1610-1703
  8. John Milton 1608-1674
  9. René Rapin 1621-1687
  10. René Le Bossu 1631-1680
  11. Thomas Rymer 1641-1713
  12. John Dryden
  13. André Dacier 1651-1722
  14. William Congreve 1670-1729
  15. Jeremy Collier 1650-1726
  16. Sir John Vanbrugh 1664-1726
  17. John Dennis 1657-1734
  18. George Farquhar 1678-1707
  19. Sir Richard Steele 1672-1729
  20. Joseph Addison 1672-1719
  21. Antoine Houdar de la Motte 1672-1731
  22. Jean Baptiste Du Bos 1670-1742
  23. Francis Hutcheson 1694-1746
  24. George Lillo 1693-1739
  25. Colley Cibber 1671-1757
  26. Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle 1657-1757
  27. Louis Jean Levesque de Pouilly 1691-1750
  28. Henry Fielding 1707-1754
  29. Voltaire 1694-1778
  30. Samuel Richardson 1689-1761
  31. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729-1781
  32. David Hume 1711-1776
  33. Denis Diderot 1713-1784
  34. Edmund Burke 1729-1797
  35. Beaumarchais 1732-1799
  36. Oliver Goldsmith 1728?-1774
  37. Sebastien Mercier 1740-1814
  38. Index