Passing Judgement: The Politics and Poetics of Sovereignty in French Tragedy from Hardy to Racine

"This book is an excellent addition to scholarship on both humanist and classical French theater."

Brian Moots, Pittsburgh State University, Renaissance Quarterly

“Bilis writes with admirable clarity as she traces a fine line of research and thinking about dramatic history and court culture during this period. She makes a valuable contribution to seventeenth-century French studies and to theatre history.”

Harriet Stone, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Washington University in St Louis

“In Passing Judgement, Hélène Bilis proposes a new study on the evolution of French tragedy. She eloquently shows how the tragic genre is permeable to various aesthetics and does not necessarily bind to a set of rigid rules.”

Hélène Visentin, Department of French, Smith College