Reading Guide for Brockett - History of the Theatre - Chapter 8 -
The Theatre in France, 1500-1700.

As always - this is just a guide, not an exhaustive outline of the chapter.

• the Pléiade
  
  
• Catherine de Medici and her love of festivals, etc.
  
  
• ballet de cours
  
  
• confraternities
  
  
• Hotel de Bourgogne
  
  
• Théatre du Marais
  
  
• tennis courts as theatres
  
  
• Le Cid controversy - Pierre Corneille
  
  
• The French Academy
  
  
• Cardinal Richelieu
  
  
• Louis XIV and ballet
  
  
• Salle des Machines
  
  
• Le Mémoire de Mahelot
  
  
• Jean Racine
  
  
• Molière
  
  
• five companies in Paris in 1673
  
  
• Comédie Française
  
  
• Battle of the Ancients and Moderns

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