Le Triomphe Des Cinq Passions

by 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

5.83 x 8.27 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.

  • By (author) Gillet de la Tessonerie
  • Edited by PE 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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