French Theater - 17th Century
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| Alexandre Hardy | 1st to make a living as dramatist. In-house writer to the Comédiens du Roi at the Hotel de Bourgogne in Paris. Developed 2 popular gengres. tyle unique. Actions linked to psychology so characters grew onstage. Role of chorus limited.
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| Tragicomedy | Genre developed by Hardy. Baroque form at its best. Favorite theme of false appearances, play within a play. Episodic structure.
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| Pastoral Play | Genre developed by Hardy. Improved it with faster plots and more naturalness.
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| Jean de Rotrou | Major French Neoclassical Playwright. He & Corneille increased prestige & respectability of theater in Paris. Favored stories about characters resolving internal moral conflicts w plots & rhetoric.
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| L'Hypocondriaque | by Rotrou. Comedy that won Richelieu's support & caused his becoming house dramatist at Hotel de Bourgogne, most important theater in Paris.
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| Paul Scanron | Contributed to development of the dram, burlesque, & novel. Le Roman Comique, best known work, style of Spanish picaresque romance. Parody of heroic novels, focus on people.
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| Pierre Corneille | Creator of FRN classical tragedy.
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