Controversy in French Drama

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Controversy in French Drama is written by J. Prest and published by Springer. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1137344008 (ISBN 10) and 9781137344007 (ISBN 13).

In 1664, Molière's Tartuffe was banned from public performance. This book provides a detailed, in-depth account of five-year struggle (1664-69) to have the ban lifted and, so doing, sheds important new light on 1660s France and the ancien régime more broadly.