The Society for Seventeenth-century French Studies

SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY
FRENCH STUDIES

Volume 16 (1994) edited by John Campbell

CONTENTS

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PETER BAYLEY Resisting the Baroque 1
ROBIN BRIGGS The Theatre State: Ceremony and Politics, 1600-1660 15
JOHN CRUICKSHANK The Acarie Circle 48
NICHOLAS HAMMOND Pascal and 'Descartes inutile et incertain' 59
DEREK WATTS La Rochefoucauld between Baroque and Classicism 65
MICHAEL O'REGAN Spectacle and Literature in Condé's Funeral Ceremonies 83
M. J. MURATORE Narratives Unbound: Drycona's Quest for Textual Liberation in L'Autre Monde 95
RICHARD PARISH Scarron's Roman comique: Contradictions and Terms 105
PETER SPIER Seventeenth-Century French Translations of Spanish 'Baroque' Texts 119
JEAN-CLAUDE VUILLEMIN Du texte dramatique au texte spectaculaire: Rotrou dramaturge baroque 135
JEAN EMELINA Molière moraliste 155
STEPHEN BAMFORTH A Second Missing Scene in Racine's Phèdre 161
WILLIAM BROOKS AND P. J. YARROW What Madame Saw: Some Clues to the Theatrical Taste of 'la Cour et la Ville', 1671-1722 167
PHILIP WELLER Stylisation and Power: Declamation and the Rhetorical Moment in 'tragédie' and 'tragédie en musique' 179
NEIL MCWILLIAM All Talk? 195