Chapter XXXII

HISTORY OF DRAMATIC LITERATURE FROM 1650 TO 1700.

Italian and Spanish Drama 793
Racine’s first Tragedies 793
Andromaque 794
Britannicus 795
Berenice 795
Bajazet 795
Mithridate 796
Iphigénie 796
Phédre 797
Esther 797
Athalie 797
Racine’s Female Characters 798
Racine compared with Corneille 798
Beauty of his Style 798
Thomas Corneille--His Ariane 799
Manlius of La Fosse 799
Molière 799
L’Avare 799
L’Ecole des Femmes 800
Le Misanthrope 800
Les Femmes Savantes 801
Tartuffe 801
Bourgeois Gentilhomme--George Dandin 801
Character of Molière 802
Les Plaideurs of Racine 802
Regnard--Le Joueur 802
His Other Plays 803
Quinault--Boursault 803
Dancourt 803
Brueys 804
Operas of Quinault 804
Revival of the English Theatre 804
Change of Public Taste 804
Its Causes 805
Heroic Tragedies of Dryden 805
His later Tragedies 805
Don Sebastian 806
Spanish Friar 806
Otway 806
Southern 807
Lee 807
Congreve 807
Comedies of Charles II.’s Reign 807
Wycherley 808
Improvement after the Revolution 808
Congreve 808
Love for Love 808
His other Comedies 808
Farquhar--Vanbrugh 809