Books by Odette de Mourgues

This is a digital reprint of Mme de Mourgues' critical introduction to the work of Racine. It concentrates entirely on the plays themselves, and attempts to say what they are and how they work on the mind of the spectator or reader.

Professor de Mourgues' study of seventeenth-century classical French writers La Rochefoucauld and La Bruyere investigates the term 'moralist' and how it applies to the two writers. This study raises delicate questions of interpretation, and adds equally to the fascination of the two writers' work.