Figures masculines et langue virile dans Le Laquais de Pierre de Larivey

Le Laquais is a play by Pierre de Larivey (1579) which was adapted from an Italian comedy by Lodovico Dolce. It attempts to give an outline of the variety of masculinity but in some unstable ways: father and master without authority, passive young lovermen, travestite lackey. Yet, Larivey’s virile writing tends to rebalance those problematic masculine representations.