Volume 1, Number 12 · February 6, 1964
Big Three
By Martin Turnell
Corneille
by P.J. Yarrow
St. Martin's Press, 325 pp., $12.00
The Art of Jean Racine
by Bernard Weinberg
Chicago, 355 pp., $7.50
Men and Masks: A Study of Moliere
by Lionel Gossman
Johns Hopkins, 310 pp., $6.50
'I recommend theatrical representations to you, which are excellent in Paris,' said Lord Chesterfield in a letter to his son. 'The tragedies of Corneille and Racine, and the comedies of Molière, well attended to, are admirable lessons, both for the heart and the head. There is not, nor ever was, any theater comparable to the French.'
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