Turcaret

Originally published in 1918, this book contains the French text of Alain-Ren?Lesage's satire Turcaret, written in the early eighteenth century. Thompson prefaces the comedy with a biography of Lesage and an analysis of his place in the canon of French playwrights alongside Molière. This book will be of value to anyone interested in eighteenth-century French drama or in the works of Lesage.

• • Author: Alain-Rene Lesage
• • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• • Publication Date: Jul 24, 2014
• • Number of Pages: 210 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback
• • ISBN-10: 1107620074
• • ISBN-13: 9781107620070