Collects several plays by the social satirist and playwright, providing an introduction to his comic inventiveness and insight.

Product Description: Focusing on actresses in France during the early modern period, Virginia Scott examines how the stereotype of the actress has been constructed. The study then moves beyond that stereotype to detail the reality of the personal and artistic lives of women on the French stage, from the almost unknown Marie Ferré - who signed a contract for 12 livres a year in 1545 to perform the 'antiquailles de Rome or other histories, moralities, farces, and acrobatics' in the provinces - to the queens of the eighteenth-century Paris stage, whose 'adventures' have overshadowed their artistic triumphs...read more

Product Description: This collaborative, interdisciplinary study explores a variety of issues in theatrical and literary history that converge in two performances given at the palace of Fontainebleau on 13 February 1564. Part of the fabled "Fetes de Fontainebleau", this carnival Sunday entertainment was produced at the behest of Catherine de Medicis and created by courtiers and artists including Pierre de Ronsard, the greatest lyric poet of the French sixteenth century...read more

Product Description: Molière's long-lost trunk of letters and manuscripts has yet to be found amidst the dust of some Parisian attic, but in spite of that, a story of his life can be told from documentary evidence, reminiscence, gossip and innuendo, and inferences from his plays...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Molière's long-lost trunk of letters and manuscripts has yet to be found amidst the dust of some Parisian attic, but in spite of that, a story of his life can be told from documentary evidence, reminiscence, gossip and innuendo, and inferences from his plays...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This brief manual is designed to help readers generate ideas, write, edit, revise, and work with word processing as they learn to write in French. It involves readers in activities in which they explore their attitudes about writing, learn about the writing process, describe a person, write a letter, tell a story, explain a concept, and express an opinion...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Tells how to develop parenting skills, make rules, encourage children's independence, communicate values, and set family goals

Product Description: Utilizing archival and primary sources, it constructs a chronicle of the troupe's theatrical life, collects and evaluates biographical information about the actors, corrects hundreds of errors in previous scholarship, and introduces scenarios, dialogues, and stage business heretofore unavailable in English...read more