Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon - Œuvres de Crébillon - 1772

Rare three-volume set of this edition that gathers the essential literary output of one of the most representative French dramatists of the first half of the 18th century, known as Crébillon père to distinguish him from his son, Claude-Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, a celebrated writer of the Enlightenment.

Born in Dijon in 1674 and later becoming a member of the Académie française, Crébillon mainly distinguished himself in tragedy, but his œuvre is distinguished by a particular tone that sometimes distances him from the classical tragedy of Corneille and Racine.

The plays gathered in this edition bear witness to a theatre strongly marked by violent passions, power struggles, political intrigues, jealousy, vengeance, ambition and moral dilemmas, with characters often confronted with extreme situations where individual feelings clash with the demands of honor, reason, or duty.

Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon - Œuvres de Crébillon - 1772 - Tome I, II et III - Libraires Associés -

devij, 334 pp.; 340 pp.; 325, [3] Pages.

Good condition of bindings, volumes in their original full tawny morocco leather (Volume II in a different binding), rubbing from use, some minor defects on boards and spines, heads and corners worn, edges of volumes I and III marbled, that of volume II red, smooth spine adorned, gilded titles and tomes on pieces of red and green morocco, blind-stamped borders framing the boards -

Good interior condition, browning, small vignette on title page, pretty headbands, tailpieces, new edition, corrected, revised & augmented with the Life of the author, superb engraved portrait of the author in the frontispiece, endpapers in good condition, a pleasing set -

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