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(1506—1582) poet, historian, and administrator

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British, Irish, and American Influences

British, Irish, and American Influences  

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1. Before 1700The English crown held sway over much of what is now France for long periods in the Middle Ages. After the Norman Conquest, however, French was the ...
Jacques Grévin

Jacques Grévin  

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(1538–70),French poet, a humanist of the school of Ronsard. His tragedy La Mort de César (1561)—important as the first original French tragedy to be performed and published—shows the influence ...
Jean Bastien de La Péruse

Jean Bastien de La Péruse  

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(1529–54),French dramatist and humanist associated both with the Pléiade and with the humanists of the Collège de Boncourt. His Médée (1556), an imitation of Seneca, was one of the earliest ...
Pléiade

Pléiade  

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A group of seven 16th‐century French poets, led by Ronsard. The name, deriving ultimately from the seven stars of the constellation of the Pleiades, had originally been applied by Alexandrian ...
Robert Garioch

Robert Garioch  

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(1909–81),Scottish poet, known principally for his witty and satiric poems in Scots. His works include 17 Poems for 6d: In Gaelic, Lowland Scots and English (1940; in collaboration with S. Maclean); ...
Thomas Sebillet

Thomas Sebillet  

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(1512–89),French literary theorist and translator, the author of L'Art poétique français (1548), a poetic manifesto which provoked Joachim du Bellay's Défence et illustration, published in the ...
tragedy

tragedy  

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A serious drama with an unhappy ending involving the downfall of the protagonist. One of Frye's four main literary genres, the others being comedy, romance, and satire. For Aristotle, this involved ...
True Law of Free Monarchies

True Law of Free Monarchies  

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A political treatise attributed to James I, published 1598, and written to combat the Calvinist theory of government advocated by G. Buchanan in his De Jure Regni (1579). It sets forth the doctrine ...

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