[104] Ruiz de Alarcon, _La Verdad sospechosa._
[105] _L'Illusion comique_ is antithetically mixed.
[106] _Andromaque_; _Phèdre_; _Bérénice_, &c.
[107] _Esther_; _Athalie_.
[108] _Le Cid_; _Polyeucte_.
[109] _Esther_; _Athalie_.
[110] Corneille, _Rodogune_; Racine, _Phèdre_.
[111] _Brutus_; _La Mort de César_; _Sémiramis_.
[112] _OEdipe_; _Le Fanatisme_ (_Mahomet_).
[113] _Adélaïde du Guesclin_.
[114] _L'Orphelin de la Chine_.
[115] _Tanis et Zélide_.
[116] _Les Guèbres_.
[117] _Olimpie_.
[118] _Tancrède_.
[119] _La Mort de César_; _Zaïre_ (_Othello_).
[120] _Hamlet_; _Le Roi Léar_, &c.
[121] The lectures delivered by the late Professor A. Beljame at
Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1905-1906 may be mentioned as valuable
contributions to our knowledge of the growth of Shakespeare's
influence in France.
[122] Quinault, _L'Amour indiscret_ (Newcastle and Dryden's _Sir
Martin Mar-all_).
[123] _Le Mercure galant_; _Ésope à la ville_; _Ésope à la cour_
(Vanbrugh, _Aesop_).
[124] _Le Bal_ (_M. de Pourceaugnac_); Geronte in _Le Légataire
universel_ (Argan in _Le Malade imaginaire_); _La Critique du L._
(_La C. de l'école des femmes_).
[125] _Le Joueur_; _Le Légataire universel_.
[126] _Crispin rival de son maître_; _Turcaret_.
[127] _Le Méchant_.
[128] _La Métromanie_.
[129] _Le Jeu de l'amour et du hasard_; _Le Legs_; _La Surprise de
l'amour_; _Les Fausses Confidences_; _L'Épreuve_.
[130] _Le Philosophe marié_; _Le Glorieux_; _Le Dissipateur_.
[131] _La Fausse Antipathie_; _Le Préjugé à la mode_; _L'École des
amis_; _Méluside_; _Paméla_. _L'École des mères_ was the play which
Frederick the Great described as turning the stage into a _bureau
général de la fadeur_.
[132] See especially _Nanine_, founded on the original _Paméla_.
[133] _Le Philosophe sans le savoir_; _La Gageure imprévue_.
[134] e.g. _Eugénie_ (the original of Goethe's _Clavigo_) and _Les
Deux Amis_, or _Le Négociant de Lyon_.
[135] _Richard Coeur de Lion_, &c.
[136] _Zémire et Azor_; _Jeannot et Jeannette_.
[137] _Les Muses galantes_; _Le Devin du village_.
[138] _Pygmalion_.
[139] _Charles IX, ou l'école des rois_.
[140] _Hernani_ (1839); _Le Roi s'amuse_; _Ruy Blas_; _Les
Burgraves_, &c. Even in _Torquemada_, the fruit of its author's old
age, and full of bombast, the original power has not altogether gone
out.
[141] _Chatterton_.
[142] _François le champi_; _Claudie_.
[143] _Le Gendre de M. Poirier_.
[144] _On ne badine pas avec l'amour_, as interpreted by Delaunay,
must always remain the most exquisite type of this inimitable
_genre_.
[145] _Théâtre de Clara Gazul_. _La Famille Carvajal_, one of these
pieces, treats the same story as that of _The Cenci_.
[146] _Lucrèce_ (1843); _L'Honneur et l'argent_; _Charlotte Corday_.
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