The Society for Seventeenth-century French Studies

SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY
FRENCH STUDIES

Volume 22 (2000) edited by Jan Clarke

CONTENTS

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HENRY PHILLIPS L'Année Racine 1
JEAN DUBU Les Vies de Racine, de l'Homme illustre de Perrault aux Hommes illustres dans la République des Lettres de Niceron, &c. 5
ALAIN VIALA Tendances actuelles de la représentation de Racine 21
MICHAEL HAWCROFT Reading Racine: Punctuation and Capitalisation in the First Editions of His Plays 35
VALERIE WORTH Listening to Racine's Confidents 51
MARY REILLY Racine and Orwell: Classical Newspeak 63
VINCENT GRÉGOIRE La Difficulté de s'entendre dans Les Plaideurs, ou la folie à l'œuvre 77
JEAN-CLAUDE RANGER Mémoire et pouvoir chez Racine 95
NICHOLAS HAMMOND Educating Joas: the Power of Memory in Athalie 107
VÉRONIQUE DESNAIN Clytemnestre: Mythical Harpy or Feminist Paragon? 115
H. T. BARNWELL Drama and Poetry of the Unseen in Racinian Tragedy 125
PETER FRANCE War and Commerce in Racinian Tragedy 141
HENRY PHILLIPS 'L'Art de bien mourir': Last Moments in Racinian Tragedy 153
ELIZABETH WOODROUGH Parodying the Pleasure Principle: Dom Juan, a Festival Play for Parisians 167
WILLIAM BROOKS AND P. J. YARROW Three Huguenots at the English Court: Louis de Durfort and his Nieces, Mlle de Malauze, a Correspondent of Elisabeth Charlotte, Duchesse d'Orléans, and Mlle Roye, Governess to the Royal Children 181
PAUL SCOTT Une Femme dramaturge dévoilée: the Case of Jean/ne Bisson [de?] la Coudraye 195
EDWARD JAMES Review Article: Verse Satire Versus Satire, or the Vanity of Definition 205
ANN MOSS John Lough (1913-2000) 213