Jeu de I’amour et du hazard, the play considered by many to be Marivaux’s best, while using a well-known comedic motif of dressing up (employed, inter alia, in Les Précieuses ridicules byMolière) goes a step further by ...

The seventeenth century in France is often regarded as the age of rhetoric - but different writers cultivated different kinds of rhetorical art. One of the main aesthetic disputes of that time – between Ancients and Moderns ...

The French career of Marivaux’s dramatic work relied to a great extent on the situation of commedia dell’arte in the country — reopening of the official Italian stage in 1716 was not so much meant for the previous triumphs ...

Jeu de I’amour et du hazard, the play considered by many to be Marivaux’s best, while using a well-known comedic motif of dressing up (employed, inter alia, in Les Précieuses ridicules byMolière) goes a step further by ...

Pierre de Marivaux, L'Île des esclaves - Polish translation published by Dufour (1782), with notes and description, ed. by Piotr Olkusz.