... Robert Garnier and the Themes of Political Tragedy in the Sixteenth Cen- tury. By GILLIANJONDORF. Cambridge: At the University Press, 1969. viii + 162 pp. $6.00. This monograph is, quite obviously, a revised doctoral thesis from which have been removed most, but unfortunately not quite...

... embedded examples to be avoided. In his liminary sonnet to Robert Garnier’s collected theatrical works (1580), Robert Estienne characterizes the playwright’s antique tragedies as vehicles of instruction about escaping the fates of the Greek and Roman empires: France, appren par ces vers, que...

.... J. L. STYAN Uniuersity of Michigan Robert Garnier and the Themes of Political Tragedy in the Sixteenth Cen- tury. By GILLIANJONDORF. Cambridge: At the University Press, 1969. viii + 162 pp. $6.00. This monograph is, quite obviously, a revised doctoral thesis from which have...

... in the drama of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century France. This analysis is structured around specific theatrical characters who affectively galvanize community resistance to a monarch figure portrayed as unjust or illegitimate. In chapter 2, “The Mourner,” Rosensweig pairs Robert Garnier’s 1574 tragedy...

... Books Received Garapon, Robert (editor). La Bruyh-e: Les Caract2res ou les Moeurs de ce si6cle. Paris: editions Garnier frGres, 1962. Pp. xlv + 622. Gibson, Robert. Roger Martin du Gard. New York: Hillary House Ltd., Studies in Modern European Literature and Thought, 1962. Pp. 128...

... to what has preceded., Garnier is certainly the best French dramatist of the sixteenth cen- tury, but, alas, he must be compared to Kacine as well as Euripides, and an assessment of the author’s intentions has never been a criterion for valid judgments about his merits...

... — the aspect of it that depends purely 2  René Descartes, Discours de la méthode (Paris: Garnier-Flammarion, 1966), 79 – 80. All translations from the French are my own unless otherwise indicated. DiPiero  Voltaire’s Parrot 343 on anatomy — from the reason...

... as a literary and political authority during the wars. In chapters covering the period between 1530 and the later sixteenth century (studying the figures of Landino, Erasmus, Budé, Dorat, Joachim du Bellay, Guillaume Paquelin, Jean de Sponde, Robert Garnier, Michel de Montaigne, and Étienne de La Boétie...

... as a literary and political authority during the wars. In chapters covering the period between 1530 and the later sixteenth century (studying the figures of Landino, Erasmus, Budé, Dorat, Joachim du Bellay, Guillaume Paquelin, Jean de Sponde, Robert Garnier, Michel de Montaigne, and Étienne de La Boétie...

..., Dorat, Joachim du Bellay, Guillaume Paquelin, Jean de Sponde, Robert Garnier, Michel de Montaigne, and Étienne de La Boétie), the book explores how humanists contributed to politics by both constructing and protesting different representations of Homer’s authority for the purpose of either...

... during the wars. In chapters covering the period between 1530 and the later sixteenth century (studying the figures of Landino, Erasmus, Budé, Dorat, Joachim du Bellay, Guillaume Paquelin, Jean de Sponde, Robert Garnier, Michel de Montaigne, and Étienne de La Boétie), the book explores how...

... marrying within a prohibited degree of kinship and could not get a dispensation; they wanted to have inter- course and this was the only way to do it; one of the partners was already 10 From Decretum Gratiani, ed. J. P. Migne (Paris: Garnier, 1912), quoted in Han- ley, “Family and State,” 54...

... (editor). Ftlix Maria Samaniego: Fdbulas. Madrid: Castalia, ClAsi- cos Castalia, No. 7, 1969. 231 pp. Jondorf, Gillian. Robert Garnier and the Themes of Political Tragedy in the Six- teenth Century. Cambridge: At the University Press, 1969. viii + 162 pp. $6.00. Joukovsky, Franqoise. La Gloire...

... the belief that Segrais borrowed from Sorel some of the action in this story. Also, the stone which Mathilde removes from the garden wall in order to talk with Montasilant is obviously derived from Ovid’s Metamorphoses. 14 Tallemant des RCaux, Historiettes, Mition Garnier, I, 98. 204...

... Garnier et 1’HipPoZytus de Sbneque”; Jean Rous- set, “Les recueils de sonnets sont-ils composb Manfred Sandmann, ‘‘ ‘. . . ma douce fleur nouvelle’ (Ronsard, Chanson Francis Scarfe, “A Discourse, for Madame de la Sabli&re (translated from La Fontaine A. J. Steele, “0 si ch&re...

... Complhtes, Cdition Moland (Paris : Garnier, 1877-1885). Le Sottisier, Tome 32, p. 553, et Lettres A Catherine 11, 1769, 14 Juillet, Tome 46, p. 382. 2 Paul Claudel, Prote‘e (Paris, 1914), pp. 202, 203, 130, 108-09, et 93. 446 Le Professeur duns lu Littkrature Frangaise ger oh, d’une...

...: Garnier-Flammarion, 1991), 219. Montagu, the wife of Mary Wortley Montagu’s nephew Edward, was one of the first of the so-called Bluestockings, who organized social gatherings attended by men of letters and members of the aristocracy with lit- erary interests. Boutin Shakespeare, Women, and French...

... political moralizing.15 What 14  Jean de La Bruyère, Les caractères de Théophraste, traduits du grec, avec Les car- actères, ou les mœurs de ce siècle, ed. Robert Garapon (Paris: Garnier, 1962), 88. The idea that we are not only presented with but “subjected” to Cornelian virtue is La Bruyère’s...

... certain articles on agriculture, and 8 Correspondance infdite de Buffon,I, 354. 9 Encyclopaedia Britanrtica (1956), VII, 69. 10 Correspondance infdite de Buffon,I, 354. 11 Des manuscrits de Buffon (Paris : Garnier frGres, 1860) , p. 187. 12 Histoire de la langue et de la...

...., Correspondance littéraire, philosophique et cri- tique, ed. Maurice Tourneux, vol. 11 (Paris: Garnier, 1879), 160. 24 MLQ March 2010 the spice missing from Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s best-selling Julie, ou La nouvelle Héloïse (1761). “Ce mauvais livre qui manque de...