SOURCE: "The Classical French Theater," in Literature and the Image of Man: Communication in Society, Vol. 2, Transaction Books, 1986, pp. 99–129.
In the following excerpt, Lowenthal discusses the writings of three French dramatists within the context of the emergence of the middle class during the seventeenth century.
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