The Society for Seventeenth-century French Studies

SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY
FRENCH STUDIES

Volume 7 (1985) edited by C. N. Smith

CONTENTS

page
J.P. SHORT Conference Report
G. J. MALLINSON 'Le même génie': Corneille, from Comedy to Tragedy 4
ROY C. KNIGHT Corneille: Pompée to Pertharite 17
J. A. BERGIN The Fortune of Richelieu: Power and Wealth in Seventeenth-Century France 27
J. P. SHORT Dramatic Tension in Corneille's Early Tragedies 37
MICHAEL O'REGAN Linguistic and Stylistic Change, 1632 to 1660: the Evidence of Corneille's Emendations 46
CLAUDE ABRAHAM 'For love and/or money': Another Look at the Lovers of Corneille's Comedies 58
MARIE-ODILE SWEETSER Tragic Situation and Providential Intervention: the Case for a New Concept of Tragedy in Seventeenth-Century French Theatre 65
T. D. HEMMING Tristan L'Hermite's La Mort de Sénèque at the Comédie-Française 74
PHILIP FORD Pierre Le Moyne; or, Poetry in Transition 78
W. J. DICKINSON La Princesse de Clèves: an Interpretation of Polyeucte? 84
NICOLE ARONSON Voyage et roman héroïque 97
RICHARD MABER Colbert and the Scholars: Ménage, Huet and the Royal Pensions of 1663 106
ANTHONY GABLE Otway, La Fosse and 'the author of the French Berenice' 115
COLIN JONES Hospitals in Seventeenth-Century France 139
R. C. KNIGHT Vinaver's Entretiens sur Racine 153
WENDY PERKINS The Uses of Science: the Montmor Academy, Samuel Sorbière and Francis Bacon 155
C. N. SMITH Bristol's 'Semaine Corneille' 163
H. T. BARNWELL Corneille, the Perpetual Innovator 166
MERLIN THOMAS Generation Gap Rivality: Corneille and Racine, 1664-1674 177
JOHN GOLDER The Stage Settings of Corneille's Early Plays 184
W. D. HOWARTH Corneille and Comedy 198