Type of Document	Master's Thesis
Author	Babin, Adam Michael
Author's Email Address	ababi11@lsu.edu
URN	etd-05242011-185851
Title	Marriage in Seventeenth-Century French Theater
Degree	Master of Arts (M.A.)
Department	French Studies
Advisory Committee	Advisor Name Title Jensen, Katharine Committee Chair Peters, Rosemary Committee Member Yeager, Jack Committee Member
Keywords	Louis XIII family
Date of Defense	2011-04-29
Availability	unrestricted
Abstract In seventeenth-century France, social and political confusion abounded. Absolute monarchy, which was principally created by Richelieu and glorified by Louis XIV, began gradually replacing the medieval feudalism that remained popular among the nobles. Likewise, préciosité, a proto-feminist literary and cultural movement that was not in line with official political ideals, emerged in France during this century. The institution of marriage was an important element of the complicated sociopolitical tapestry of seventeenth-century France. Through the depiction of marriage in Pierre Corneille’s Le Cid (1636), Jean-Baptiste Poquelin de Molière’s L’École des femmes (1662), and Jean Racine’s Andromaque (1667), three works of the most prominent form of fiction in seventeenth-century France—theater, one can see how marriage was tightly bound to both politics and society.
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