Du Pastor Fido au saint constant : la transposition des codes de la pastorale dramatique dans le théâtre hagiographique français du XVIIe siècle

This essay deals with some French hagiographic plays which do not rely on a tragic pathetic aesthetic, such as Corneille’s Polyeucte and Théodore. They are frequently considered as incoherent works, since they do not respect the classical rules. This paper shows that it is fruitful to compare them t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Anne Teulade
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Institut du Monde Anglophone 2003-11-01
Series:Etudes Epistémè
Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/episteme/4078