W. D. Howarth

• Beaumarchais and the theatre
• Comic drama
• Explications
• Explications: the technique of French literary appreciation
• French theatre in the neo-classical era, 1550-1789
• Molière: stage and study
• Molière, a playwright and his audience
• Myth and its making in the French theatre
• Sublime and grotesque
• Anouilh
• Anouilh
• Dom Juan