SOURCE: "Baroque or Burlesque? Aspects of French Comic Theatre in the Early Seventeenth Century," in The Modern Language Review, Vol. 79, No. 4, October, 1984, pp. 797–809.
In the essay that follows, Caldicott examines several common "burlesque" features of seventeenth-century comedy.
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