Explores critical approaches that scholars have taken towards such works of playwright Corneille as Le Cid (1637), Horace (1641), Cinna (1642), and Polyeucte martyr (1643). The author argues that Corn
02 The ideological underpinnings of early modern theories of contagion are dissected in this volume by an integrated team of literary scholars, cultural historians, historians of medicine and art hist
