SOURCE: An introduction to Studies in French-Classical Tragedy, The Vanderbilt University Press, 1958, pp. 9–26.
In the following excerpt, Lockert discusses the weaknesses of several critics' assessments of French neo-classical tragedies and argues that greater consideration should be given to the works of minor dramatists of the time.
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