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    Jean Rotrou (21 August 1609 – 28 June 1650) was a French poet and tragedian. Rotrou was born at Dreux, city of the current department of Eure-et-Loir...
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  • Rotrou may refer to: Rotrou I, Count of Perche Rotrou II, Count of Perche Rotrou III, Count of Perche (bef. 1080 – 1144) Rotrou IV, Count of Perche Rotrou...
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    2013 Jean Rotrou, La Belle Alphrède, in G. Forestier, éd., Théâtre complet de Jean Rotrou. Vol. 9. Paris, SDTF-Les Belles Lettres, 2008 Jean Rotrou, L’Innocente...
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    by Amphitryon, inspired both by Plautus' work of the same name and Jean Rotrou's successful reconfiguration of the drama. With some conjecture, Molière's...
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    theatrical works by Molière and Jean Racine, along with a few works by Pierre Corneille, Paul Scarron and Jean Rotrou. In the 18th century, the Comédie-Française...
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    La Thébaïde (category Plays by Jean Racine)
    Sophocles, the Phoenician Women of Euripides, but especially the Antigone of Jean Rotrou and the tragedies of Pierre Corneille. This ancient Theban drama attracted...
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    Italian plays, and a comedy in Portuguese by Luís de Camões. In 1636 Jean Rotrou translated Plautus' work into a successful French language production...
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  • Alexandre Hardy (1570–1632) Jean Mairet (1604–1686) Pierre du Ryer (1606–1658) Pierre Corneille (1606–1684) Jean Rotrou (1609–1650) Cyrano de Bergerac...
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  • Francisco de Rojas Zorrilla 1608 – Padre António Vieira/ John Milton 1609 – Jean Rotrou 1611 – William Cartwright; Thomas Urquhart 1613 – John Cleveland 1615...
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  • Richard Lovelace – The Scholars Jean Mairet – Le Marc-Antoine, ou la Cléopâtre Thomas Nabbes – Hannibal and Scipio Jean Rotrou – La Bague de l'oubli Joseph...
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  • Herodes Marta la piadosa Thomas Nabbes – Microcosmus, a Moral Masque Jean Rotrou – Les Deux Sosies William Sampson – The Vow-Breaker, or The Fayre Maid...
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    the five authors"). The others were Guillaume Colletet, Boisrobert, Jean Rotrou, and Claude de L'Estoile. The five were selected to realize Richelieu's...
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  • Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, English historian (died 1674) August 19 – Jean Rotrou, French poet and dramatist (died 1650) October 5 – Paul Fleming, German...
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  • Emperor of the East Thomas May – Antigone, the Theban Princess published Jean Rotrou – L'Hypocondriaque James Shirley The Traitor Love's Cruelty The Humorous...
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  • Euripides Antigone (Rotrou play) [fr], a 1638 play by Jean Rotrou Antigone (Anouilh play), Jean Anouilh's play Antigone (Cocteau play), Jean Cocteau's play...
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    Venceslas by Rotrou, 1766: La Pharsale de Lucain, translated into prose, 1775: édition des Chefs d’œuvres dramatiques de Mairet, Du Ryer et Rotrou, with a...
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    Nogent-le-Rotrou (French pronunciation: [nɔʒɑ̃ lə ʁɔtʁu]) is a commune in the department of Eure-et-Loir, northern France. It is a sub-prefecture and is...
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    The Château Saint-Jean is a castle in the commune of Nogent-le-Rotrou in the Eure-et-Loir département of France. Château Saint-Jean, which overlooks the...
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    François-André Danican Philidor (1726–1795), musician and chess player Jean Rotrou (1609–1650), poet and tragedian Issa Samba, footballer Adrien Trebel...
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  • for the learned, and in 1628 when Hardy's work was nearly over and Jean Rotrou and Jean Mairet were on the threshold of their careers, very few literary...
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  • 27 – Anthony Ascham, English political theorist (born c. 1614) June – Jean Rotrou, French poet and dramatist (born 1609) June 30 – Niccolò Cabeo, Italian...
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    dominated by farce, satirical monologues and by the commedia dell'arte. Jean Rotrou and Pierre Corneille would return to regular comedy shortly before 1630...
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  • Levellers Levelled, or the Independents' Conspiracy to Root Out Monarchy Jean Rotrou Don Bertrand de Cabrère Venceslas Samuel Sheppard – The Committee-Man...
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  • Gombaud, chevalier de Méré (1607–1685) Madeleine de Scudéry (1607–1701) Jean Rotrou (1609–1650) Paul Scarron (1610–1660) François-Eudes de Mézeray (1610–1683)...
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  • farce, the satirical monologue and by the Italian commedia dell'arte. Jean Rotrou and Pierre Corneille would return to the regular comedy shortly before...
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  • adapted by authors outside Spain. No hay padre siendo rey was borrowed by Jean Rotrou for his Venceslas. Donde hay agravios no hay zelos and the Amo criado...
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    Bennett, British Colonial Governor of Virginia (d. 1675) August 21 – Jean Rotrou, French poet and tragedian (d. 1650) August 25 – Giovanni Battista Salvi...
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    Frenchmen in Hector Lefuel's Cour Napoléon of the Louvre Palace. Monument of Jean Rotrou (bronze, 1866) for Dreux, adapting and simplifying the features of the...
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  • Tales Also won in 1973 Robert James Nelson University of Pennsylvania Jean Rotrou General Nonfiction Constantine FitzGibbon German and East European History...
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  • Scévole, by Pierre du Ryer Venceslas, by Jean Rotrou Zénobie, by Jean Magnon Don Bertrand de Cabrère, by Jean Rotrou Le Campagnard, by Gillet de La Tessonerie...
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