SOURCE: "Affairs of State and French Tragicomedy in the Seventeenth Century," in Renaissance Tragicomedy: Explorations in Genre and Politics, edited by Nancy Klein Maguire, AMS Press, 1987, pp. 177–95.
In the following excerpt, Gethner contends that a political dimension is typically present in seventeenth-century French tragicomedies and is often closely related to other elements of the plot.
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