Le Triomphe Des Cinq Passions

By (author) Gillet de la Tessonerie Edited by P.E. Chaplin

Book cover: Le Triomphe Des Cinq Passions

Extent: 104 pages

Publisher: University of Exeter Press

Subjects: Literary Studies

Series: Exeter French Texts

Language: French

Paperback (Published)

(April 2001)

ISBN: 9780859896689

5.87 x 8.31 inches

Price: $30.00

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Gillet de La Tessonerie’s tragi-comedy is an unusual example in French seventeenth-century theatre of a ‘play within a play’. The play has not been reprinted since 1645 and is an important example of diversity in early French classical theatre.


Gillet de La Tessonerie’s tragi-comedy is an unusual example in French seventeenth-century theatre of a ‘play within a play’. In fact, there are five plays contained within the story of a young man’s visit to a magician to find a cure for the passions which torment him: vainglory, ambition, sex, jealousy, hate. The play has not been reprinted since 1645 and is an important example of diversity in early French classical theatre. This is a volume in the Textes littEraires/Exeter French Texts. The text, introduction and essential notes are all in French.


P. E. Chaplin teaches at the University of Keele. She is editor of L’Art de REgner by Gillet de La Tessonerie (Exeter, 1993).

  • By (author) Gillet de la Tessonerie
  • Edited by P.E. Chaplin

"Providing full textual notes and bibliography, Chaplin admirably continues the tradition of Exeter French Texts in making available a play which is original and unusual, and which broadens our knowledge of seventeenth-century theatrical taste." (Modern Language Review, Issue 98 No. 4, 2003)
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“Providing full textual notes and bibliography, Chaplin admirably continues the tradition of Exeter French Texts in making available a play which is original and unusual, and which broadens our knowledge of seventeenth-century theatrical taste.” (Modern Language Review, Issue 98 No. 4, 2003)

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