La Chaussée, Pierre-claude Nivelle De
French playwright who created the comédie larmoyante (“tearful comedy”), a verse-drama form merging tearful, sentimental scenes with an invariably happy ending. These sentimental comedies, which were precursors of Denis Diderot's drames bourgeois, were psychologically superficial and rhetorically exaggerated and were intended to contribute
posted by SuddenCat @ 5:01 AM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home