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Author: William Brooks ,
Noel Peacock
Publisher: Verlag Peter Lang
Imprint: Verlag Peter Lang
Edition: New edition
Volume: 6
Weight: 0.720kg
ISBN: 9783039115334
ISBN 10: 3039115332
Pages: 516
Publication Date: 22 December 2008
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
This book by William Brooks is a major contribution to the history of seventeenth-century French theatre and it should be acquired by all research libraries. (Edmund J. Campion, The European Legacy) This much-needed study blows away the critical cobwebs and the oft-repeated errors and cliches (...). (C.J. Gossip, New Zealand Journal of French Studies) Tres bien documente, le livre de William Brooks est incontestablement appele a remplacer l'etude d'Etienne Gros et a devenir le nouvel ouvrage de reference sur le sujet. (Stella Spriet, H-France Review)
This book by William Brooks is a major contribution to the history of seventeenth-century French theatre and it should be acquired by all research libraries. (Edmund J. Campion, The European Legacy) This much-needed study blows away the critical cobwebs and the oft-repeated errors and cliches (...). (C.J. Gossip, New Zealand Journal of French Studies) Tres bien documente, le livre de William Brooks est incontestablement appele a remplacer l'etude d'Etienne Gros et a devenir le nouvel ouvrage de reference sur le sujet. (Stella Spriet, H-France Review)
"""This book by William Brooks is a major contribution to the history of seventeenth-century French theatre and it should be acquired by all research libraries."" (Edmund J. Campion, The European Legacy) ""This much-needed study blows away the critical cobwebs and the oft-repeated errors and cliches (...)."" (C.J. Gossip, New Zealand Journal of French Studies) ""Tres bien documente, le livre de William Brooks est incontestablement appele a remplacer l'etude d'Etienne Gros et a devenir le nouvel ouvrage de reference sur le sujet."" (Stella Spriet, H-France Review)"
Author Information
The Author: William Brooks is Professor of French at the University of Bath, UK. He has published extensively in seventeenth-century French studies, notably the theatre and especially Quinault, early baroque opera librettos, and the life and writings of Elisabeth Charlotte, Duchess of Orleans. He is co-editor, with Rainer Zaiser, of Religion, Ethics, and History in the French Long Seventeenth Century and Theatre, Fiction, and Poetry in the French Long Seventeenth Century, two volumes of papers from a major conference of French early modern scholars, published by Peter Lang in 2007.
