In:
PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, Modern Language Association (MLA), Vol. 30, No. 3 ( 1915), p. 500-508
Abstract:
A quaint piece of dramatic writing, the Cartel or Monomachie of Antoine Gaillard, is one of the earliest of seventeenth-century French plays in which an author puts his contemporaries on the stage and makes fellow writers the butt of his jests. It clears the way for Desmarest's Visionnaires, Saint-Evremond's Académistes, a half-dozen of Molière's plays, and a number of other pieces by Molière's contemporaries, whose satire is devoted to living individuals or to groups of literary persons; but the work has so little dramatic value that it would remain merely a date, were it not for the fact that by selecting real persons as the object of his satire, Gaillard has criticized from the standpoint of a contemporary a number of writers who flourished with greater or less distinction in 1633. In discussing the work I shall therefore dwell upon its biographical qualities, rather than upon its slender merit as a drama.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
0030-8129
,
1938-1530
Language:
English
Publisher:
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Publication Date:
1915
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