Table of Contents

Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 1
Françoise Pascal, Endymion
Introduction 21
Text 37
Marie-Catherine Desjardins (Mme de Villedieu), Nitetis
Introduction 101
Text 113
Antoinette Deshoulières, Genseric
Introduction 165
Text 177
Catherine Durand, Proverb Comedies
Introduction 237
Text 246
Bibliography 301
Index 307

About the Author

Perry Gethner, who holds a doctorate from Yale, is Regents Professor of French and chair of the Department of Foreign Languages at Oklahoma State University. He has published critical editions and translations of many early modern French plays, as well as numerous articles dealing with French drama and opera of that period.