SOURCE: "Tragedies by Women: Mlle. Barbier and Mme. Gomez," in Sunset: A History of Parisian Drama in the Last Years of Louis XIV, 1701–1715, The Johns Hopkins Press, 1945, pp. 69–81.
In the following excerpt, Lancaster provides an analysis of the works of two women who were among the most prominent female French tragedians of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.
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