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Lyons carefully lays out the social, religious, and cultural context of mid-17th century France and makes a brilliant case for the power of language as a tool of resistance. Essential. * Choice *

Lyons carefully lays out the social, religious, and cultural context of mid-17th century France and makes a brilliant case for the power of language as a tool of resistance. Essential. * Choice * Lyons's lucid study is structured in such a way that individual plays receive their own chapter, making it an instructive scholarly and pedagogical companion that will enable less-known plays by Molière to be taught and studied and new light to be shed on his canonical works. * Helena Taylor, H-France *

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After his Ph.D. at Yale University, John Lyons taught French and Italian at Dartmouth College, where he also served as chair of the Comparative Literature Program. During part of that time he was also Director of the Centre Américain du Cinéma in Paris. In 1987 he joined the Department of French at the University of Virginia, becoming Commonwealth Professor in 1992. His research has been funded by the NEH, the J.S. Guggenheim Foundation, and the Mellon Foundation. In 2007 he was named Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur.

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