Product Description: Who was Catherine de Medici? The answer to this question depends largely on one’s religion and politics. Catherine de Medici: Five Portraits examines historically this great queen from the standpoint of her contemporaries and later writers...read more

Product Description: Facets of a Princess is a novel approach to Madame de La Fayette's La Princesse de Clèves. Unlike previous critical studies, Facets does not limit its focus to a single critical approach, but instead examines the novel from political, historical, extreme feminist, and religious perspectives...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Adapting The Princess of Cleves to a modern language format, this book offers a new, readable translation of Madame de La Fayette's masterpiece. The work is supplemented by an Introduction and general critical commentary which aid in the proper understanding of the seventeenth-century novel...read more

Product Description: The present study shows that most of the so-called digressions and marginal historical figures play an integral role in an interpretation of "La Princesse". More than mere background, these are examples for the heroine to follow or avoid...read more

Product Description: Scripta Humanistica. 1989. 235 p.Diamante's Reina María Estuarda traces the tragic misfortunes of Mary Queen of Scots from her arrival in England until her death. The value of the present edition is not only the availability of this inaccessible play in a readable format, but also its efforts to rehabilitate Diamante, to demonstrate the value of this comedia and to enable the Hispanist to consult the writings of one of Calderón's significant contemporaries...read more

Product Description: This present study takes a new look at the essayist Michel de Montaigne and the philosopher Rene Descartes and attempts to show a new interrelationship between the two. Previous studies have linked the latter's Discours de la m,thode to the Essais and have noted general similarities, but no major study to date has examined the pair from the standpoint of Descartes' Trait, des passions and Montaigne's Essais...read more

Product Description: This present study takes a new look at the essayist Michel de Montaigne and the philosopher Rene Descartes and attempts to show a new interrelationship between the two. Previous studies have linked the latter's Discours de la mÈthode to the Essais and have noted general similarities, but no major study to date has examined the pair from the standpoint of Descartes' TraitÈ des passions and Montaigne's Essais...read more

Product Description: Scripta Humanistica. 1985. 191 p.A critical edition of the early seventeenth-century French dramatist Alexandre Hardy's play, La Force du sang, which claims Cervantes' novella as its unique source. "The edition is a good one...is most welcome, as it is the first critical edition ever offered of this play...read more