<BR>This collection of twenty essays, of which five are in French, written by leading English and French literary and historical scholars, deconstructs the ethical and political framework supporting and circumscribing the actions of a powerful elite...
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This collection of twenty essays, of which five are in French, written by leading English and French literary and historical scholars, deconstructs the ethical and political framework supporting and circumscribing the actions of a powerful elite in France between the early 1600s and the final years of Louis XIV's reign.
Front Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Derek Watts; Derek Watts: A Bibliography; Contributors; PART I: The Ethics of Action; Introduction - Elizabeth Woodrough; Chapter 1: 'Alternative' Ethical Systems in France during the Grand Siècle - William D. Howarth; Chapter 2: A Note on Lay Piety in the Early Seventeenth Century - John Cruickshank; Chapter 3: Guez de Balzac: The Enduring Influence of Rome - Margaret McGowan ; Chapter 4: L'Image de la Ligue dans les Mémoires du Cardinal de Retz - Simone Bertiere
Chapter 5: The Political Testaments of Richelieu and La Rochefoucauld - Elizabeth WoodroughChapter 6: Considérations morales et politiques autour d'Henri II de Montmorency: Une polyphonie discordante - Noemi Hepp ; Chapter 7: Medicine and Statecraft in the Mémoires of the Cardinal de Retz - Colin Jones ; Chapter 8: The Fouquet-Colbert Rivalry and the 'Revolution' of 1661 - Richard Bonney ; Chapter 9: Crescit ut aspicitur: Condé and the Reinterpretation of Heroism, 1650-1662 - Mark Bannister ; Chapter 10: Love, Marriage and a Disputed Sentence in La Princesse de Clèves - John Campbell
Chapter 11: Marie de Villars: A Political Woman? - Wendy Perkins Chapter 12: Ascendant et déclinaison de la noblesse française dans le système de Boulainvilliers - Yves Coirault ; PART II: The PoliticsS of Theatre; Chapter 13; Corneille: Ethic and Polis - Henry Phillips ; Chapter 14: Sur l'échec des conjurés dans La Mort de Sénèque - Madeleine Bertaud ; Chapter 15: 'Le Poids d'une couronne': The Dilemma of Monarchy in La Calprenéde's Tragedies - Guy Snaith ; Chapter 16: African Temptresses and Roman Matrons: Female Roles on the Paris Stage, 1634-1643 - David Clarke
Chapter 17: How Quinault uses Political Commonplaces - William Brooks Chapter 18: Politics and Tragedy: The Case of the Earl of Essex - C. J. Gossip ; Chapter 19: 'Je commence à rougir': Shame, Self-Esteem and Guilt in the Presentation of Racine's Hippolyte - Edward Forman ; Chapter 20: L'influence de Louis XIV sur la vie littéraire: pour un bilan critique - Jean Rohou ; Index; Back Cover
