University of Exeter Press

Dissertations Contre Corneille

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    Dissertations Contre Corneille chronicles one of the great literary controversies of seventeenth-century France. In 1663, François Hédelin, l’abbé d’Aubignac, published four dissertations in which he criticised with increasing ferocity the most famous and greatest playwright of the century, Corneille. The first dissertation attacks Sophonisbe, the second Sertorius, the third Oedipe, and the fourth concentrates on the personality of Corneille.



    This is the first edition of these writings to be published since the eighteenth century, and will be of importance for scholars of seventeenth-century French literature.





    Dissertations Contre Corneille chronicles one of the great literary controversies of seventeenth-century France. In 1663, François Hédelin, l’abbé d’Aubignac, published four dissertations in which he criticised with increasing ferocity the most famous and greatest playwright of the century, Corneille.





    Frontispice: Page de titre des deux premieres Dissertations, 1663

    Introduction


    1. Vie de l'Abbe d'Aubignac

    2. Les Etapes de la Querelle de Sophonisbe

    3. D'Aubignac Critique

    4. Le Texte

    Bibliographie

    Dissertations Contre Corneille

    Premiere Dissertation

    Seconde Dissertation

    Troisieme Dissertation

    Quatrieme Dissertation

    Index



    Nicholas Hammond is Lecturer in French, University of Cambridge, and Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.



    Michael Hawcroft is Fellow of Keble College, Oxford and Lecturer in French, University of Oxford.