Title: Corneille's <i>Œdipe</i> and the Politics of Seventeenth-Century Royal Succession
Abstract: influential role, beginning in 1657 as a benefactor of Pierre and Thomas Corneille, Madeleine de Scudery, and most famously, Jean de La Fontaine. In exchange for the minister’s generosity, Pierre Corneille wrote “Vers presentees a Monseigneur Procureur Generale Fouquet, surintendant des finances” in which he offers to write a play on any topic his patron would choose. Fouquet reportedly proposed three subjects: Oedipus, Camma (which Thomas Corneille would take up), and a third unidentified one. Corneille, Œuvres completes, ed Georges Couton (Paris: Gallimard Pleiade, 1987) 3:1366. All Corneille quotations will be taken from this edition and verse numbers will be cited
Publication Year: 2010
Publication Date: 2010-09-01
Language: en
Type: article
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