Controversy in French Drama

Controversy in French Drama

Julia Prest

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Springer Nature B.V.
Año de edición:
2014
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Literatura: historia y crítica
ISBN:
9781137343994

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In 1664, Molière’s Tartuffe was banned from public performance. This book provides a detailed, in-depth account of the five-year struggle (1664-69) to have the ban lifted and, so doing, sheds important new light on 1660s France and the ancien régime more b

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