Abbé d'Aubignac: Pièces en prose. Édition critique

This work is the first critical edition of the three prose tragedies of François Hédelin, abbé d'Aubignac: 'La Pucelle d'Orléans' (The Maid of Orleans), originally published in 1642; 'La Cyminde ou les deux victimes' (Cyminde or the Two Victims), also published in 1642; and 'Zénobie' (Zenobia), published in 1647. Author of the celebrated 'La Pratique du théâtre' (The Whole Art of the Stage), published in 1657, d'Aubignac is known primarily as a dramatic theoretician. The critical edition aims to make the three prose tragedies more easily accessible to scholars of seventeenth-century French drama, providing an opportunity for better understanding of this influential writer. The edition contains an introduction and more than 600 notes.