Alexandre Hardy et le theatre de ville francais au debut du XVIIe siecle

by Fabien Cavaille, preface by Gilles Declercq

Book cover: Alexandre Hardy et le theatre de ville francais au debut du XVIIe siecle

Extent: 489 pages

Publisher: Classiques Garnier

Subjects: Early Modern & Renaissance Studies, Music & Performing Arts

Series: Lire le XVIIe siecle

Series volume number: 41, 6

Language: French

Paperback (Published)

(November 2016)

ISBN: 9782406058366

Price: $75.00

In stock

This book approaches the work of Alexandre Hardy through his scenes of violent action, with their verse and rhetoric, in the tragedies, tragi-comedies and pastorals which have reached us. To read Hardy is to glimpse the ambitions of the popular stage and its development in the early seventeenth century.


This book approaches the work of Alexandre Hardy through his scenes of violent action, with their verse and rhetoric, in the tragedies, tragi-comedies and pastorals which have reached us. To read Hardy is to glimpse the ambitions of the popular stage and its development in the early seventeenth century.

  • By (author) Fabien Cavaillé
  • Preface by Gilles Declercq