SOURCE: "After Racine and Conclusion," in French Tragic Drama in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, Methuen & Co Ltd, 1973, pp. 282–93.
Brereton is an English scholar who has written extensively on French literature of the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. In the following excerpt, Brereton analyzes the lack of development within the genre of tragedy during the end of Louis XIVs reign.
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