CHAPTER XXXII.

HISTORY OF DRAMATIC LITERATURE FROM 1650 TO 1700.

Italian and Spanish Drama 793 Racine’s first Tragedies 793 Andromaque 794 Britannicus 795 Berenice 795 Bajazet 795 Mithridate 796 Iphigénie 796 Phédre 797 Esther 797 Athalie 797 Racine’s Female Characters 798 Racine compared with Corneille 798 Beauty of his Style 798 Thomas Corneille--His Ariane 799 Manlius of La Fosse 799 Molière 799 L’Avare 799 L’Ecole des Femmes 800 Le Misanthrope 800 Les Femmes Savantes 801 Tartuffe 801 Bourgeois Gentilhomme--George Dandin 801 Character of Molière 802 Les Plaideurs of Racine 802 Regnard--Le Joueur 802 His Other Plays 803 Quinault--Boursault 803 Dancourt 803 Brueys 804 Operas of Quinault 804 Revival of the English Theatre 804 Change of Public Taste 804 Its Causes 805 Heroic Tragedies of Dryden 805 His later Tragedies 805 Don Sebastian 806 Spanish Friar 806 Otway 806 Southern 807 Lee 807 Congreve 807 Comedies of Charles II.’s Reign 807 Wycherley 808 Improvement after the Revolution 808 Congreve 808 Love for Love 808 His other Comedies 808 Farquhar--Vanbrugh 809