Abstract: Resituated in the theatrical context of the Richelieu years, the three tragedies presented in this volume, La Mariane, La Mort de Sénèque, and Osman, bear witness to a problematic tension between the tyrannical exercise of political power and the affirmation of heroic values imbued with the Stoic ideal. Different categories of discourse are also deployed, from the power of persuasive or imperative speech to the lyricism revealing the suffering of the characters
