Guyon Guérin de Bouscal

Guyon Guérin de Bouscal (1613–1657) was a French dramatist and novelist.[1]

Selected works

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  • Oroondate (performed 1643), a parody of the widespread literary models of heroic courtship
  • a trilogy based on Don Quixote (performed 1638-9), notable for its accomplished use of the burlesque and thought to have been adapted and played by Molière's company as Le Gouvernement de Sancho Pansa in 1660.
  • La mort de Brute et de Porcie (1637), on the deaths of Brutus and his wife Portia
  • One novel

References

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  1. ^ Titchener, Frances B.; Zadorojnyi, Alexei V. (2023-07-13). The Cambridge Companion to Plutarch. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-76622-7.
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