‘Diables incarnez, Machiavelistes, heretiques’: the villains of Pierre Matthieu's La Guisiade reconsidered
This article proposes a new reading of Pierre Matthieu's La Guisiade (1589), a polemical tragedy written at the height of France's Wars of Religion (1562–98). La Guisiade constitutes an incandescent response to the assassination on 23 December 1588 of the Duc de Guise, the charismatic lead...
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Oxford University Press
2015
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