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 ...

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