Alexandre Dumas (1803-1870), the prolific French author of plays, popular romances, and historical novels, wrote The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo. Alexandre Dumas is generally called Dumas père to distinguish him from his illustr...
Despite their unflagging worldwide popularity, their perennial availability, and their innumerable cinematographic adaptations, the works of Alexandre Dumas père have been largely unappreciated by critics. There has been, for some time now, a spec...
The dramatic writings of Alexandre Dumas père, long absent from publishers' booklists and often granted little more than la portion congrue (an extremely small place) in critical assessments of his literary corpus, seem today to be experiencing so...
A Case of Witchcraft: The Trial of Urbain Grandier. By Robert Rapley. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1998. ix + 277 pp. $29.95 cloth. Research on the history of European witchcraft, if no longer the growth industry it was a generation ago, continues to...
A Case of Witchcraft; The Trial of Urbain Grandier. By Robert Rapley. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1998. 277 pp. $29.95. The details and causes of the 1634 trial and execution of Urbain Grandier, a French parish priest in the town of...
