Aspects of Seventeenth-Century French Drama and Thought |
Contents
| 1 | |
Doubt and the Cornelian Hero | 7 |
Absence and Presence in Andromaque Britannicus and Bérénice | 37 |
Person and Persona in the raisonneurs of Molières Ecoles | 74 |
The Triumph of Art over Nature in the Maximes | 90 |
The Paradox of Pascals Pensées | 112 |
Doubt and Certainty in Cartesianism | 147 |
The Paradoxes of Orasius Tubero | 165 |
Notes Index viii 1 | 166 |
7 | 177 |
74 | 180 |
165 | 181 |
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actions Agrippine amour-propre Andromaque Andromaque's appearances argument Ariste Arnolphe attitude autres belief Bérénice bien Britannicus Burrhus c'est Camille Cassander certainty character choses Christian Chrysalde Cinna coeur comedy comic Corneille Corneille's Cornelian cuckoldry Curiace d'être death decision Descartes devoir dialogue Dieu Discours doubt dramatic Essais être fact fait faith faut fideistic Gassendi gloire grandeur Hermione hero heroism homme Horace human humeur intérêt jamais Jesus Christ judgement Junie knowledge La Rochefoucauld Le Misanthrope lines man's marriage Maximes Méditations methodical doubt milieu mind misère misère-grandeur Molière Molière's Montaigne Montaigne's morale n'est Narcisse nature Néron opinions Oreste orgueil paradox Paris Pascal passions Pauline Pensées peut philosophic play Polyeucte present principle Pyrrhonists Pyrrhus qu'il Racine raison raisonneur rational reaction reality reason religion rien Rochefoucauld role Rome scene sceptical Sévère Sextus Empiricus Sganarelle situation Titus tout Troy truth unbeliever underlying Vayer vertu vision wager whilst yeux