La Mort d’Agrippine
play by Cyrano de Bergerac
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discussed in biography
- In Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac
Cyrano’s plays include a tragedy, La Mort d’Agrippine (published 1654, “The Death of Agrippine”), which was suspected of blasphemy, and a comedy, Le Pédant joué (published 1654; “The Pedant Imitated”). As long as classicism was the established taste, Le Pédant joué was despised, but its liveliness has its appeal to…
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