SOURCE: "French Tragicomedy from Gamier to Corneille," in Tragicomedy: Its Origin and Development in Italy, France, and England, University of Illinois Press, 1955, pp. 172–214.
In the following excerpt, Herrick examines several tragicomedies by mid-seventeenth-century dramatists Pierre Du Ryer and Jean de Rotrou.
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