Two Tragedies: Hector and La Reine d'Escosse

Description

Antoine de Montchrestien's tragedies have been the object of increased critical attention over the years. This annotated edition makes two of his most interesting plays available - Hector, often recognised as one of the masterpieces of French regular rhetorical tragedy, and La Reine d'Escosse, a showcase of Montchrestien's concept of tragedy.

Antoine de Montchrestien was a 17th-century French soldier, dramatist, adventurer and economist and one of the founders of 17th-century French drama. C. N. Smith was lecturer in French at the University of East Anglia, UK.