Turcaret

Originally published in 1918, this book contains the French text of Alain-René Lesage's satire Turcaret.

Alain-Rene Lesage (Author), Alexander Hamilton Thompson (Edited by)

9781107620070, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 24 July 2014

210 pages
20.3 x 13.3 x 1.2 cm, 0.25 kg

Originally published in 1918, this book contains the French text of Alain-René Lesage's satire Turcaret, written in the early eighteenth century. Thompson prefaces the comedy with a biography of Lesage and an analysis of his place in the canon of French playwrights alongside Molière. This book will be of value to anyone interested in eighteenth-century French drama or in the works of Lesage.

Preface
Introduction
Text
Notes.

Subject Areas: Theatre studies [AN]