Here are blank verse translations of ten of the best tragedies by
French dramatists contemporary with Corneille and Racine, and two
by the most noted successors. No great dramatist can be properly
understood and appreciated without some knowledge of the lesser
playwrights surrounding him. The fact has long been realized as
regards to Shakespeare; but the lesser figures of the great age of
French drama--men comparable to such Elizabethans as Middleton and
Fletcher and Massinger--have been generally neglected. This book
makes a selection of their best works available to English readers.
French students who do not have access to the frequently rare
French texts of these plays will find it valuable. No play by any
of these dramatists, except Voltaire, has ever before been
translated into English. The faithfulness and literary qualities of
Dr. Lockert's translations are avouched by his two previous volumes
in this field, The Chief Plays of Corneille and The Best Plays of
Racine.
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