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This volume includes essays on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century plays, poems, novels, essays, and tales, such as Moliere's "comedies-ballets" and "Le Tartuffe"; Corneille's "Cinna" and "Rodogune"; Racine's "Phedre"; D'Aubigne's "Les Tragiques"; Montaigne's "Essais"; and Perrault's "Contes," and other works. Among the contributors are Claude Abraham, Laurent Romero, G. Mallary Masters, Stephen Murphy, Nigel Smith, Timothy Eastridge, and Nancy McElveen."