Le poète face au critique Statut de l’auteur et enjeux de la réception dans les théâtres français et anglais (1660-1740)

In the second half of the seventeenth century in France and England, many plays are concerned with their reception, and this presents the poet with the task of showing his change of status and the evolution of literary debate. Combining realism with satire, his portrait is that of a man of theatre who tries to satisfy actors, readers and spectators, and to make himself heard as a pratician by theorists and critics.