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Philippe Quinault
Philippe Quinault (; 3 June 1635 – 26 November 1688), French dramatist and librettist, was born in Paris.
Biography.
Quinault was educated by the liberality of François Tristan l'Hermite, the author of "Marianne". Quinault's first play was produced at the Hôtel de Bourgogne in 1653, when he was only eighteen. The piece succeeded, and Quinault followed it up, but he also read for the bar; and in 1660, when he married a widow with money, he bought himself
(1666)
- "Attila" (1667)
- "Tite et Bérénice" (1670)
- "Psyché" (with Molière and Philippe Quinault,1671)
- "Pulchérie" (1672)
- "Suréna" (1674)
See also.
- Cornelian dilemma, named after Corneille
Further reading.
- Ekstein, Nina. "Corneille's Irony". Charlottesville: Rookwood Press, 2007.
- Harrison, Helen. "Pistoles/Paroles: Money and Language in Seventeenth