to 1660. British imitations of the French style included Parthenissa, published in 1654 by Roger Boyle, Lord Broghill. This work was greatly admired by Dorothy Osborne and achieved a decent measure of popularity. When the drama, and in particular tragedy, was reinstituted in England, sentimental readers found a field for their emotions on the stage, and the heroic romances immediately began to go out of fashion. However, they lingered for a quarter of a century more, and M. Jusserand has analyzed what may be considered the very latest of the race, Pandion and Amphigenia, published in 1669 by the dramatist, John Crowne. Major French works Ariane (1632) by Desmarets de Saint-Sorlin Cassandre (1642–1645), Cleopátre (1647), and Faramond (1661) by Gauthier de Costes, seigneur de la Calprenède Ibrahim, ou l'Illustre Bassa (1641), Le Grand Cyrus (1648–1653), and Clélie (1649–1654) by Georges de Scudéry and Madeleine de Scudéry Authorities Gordon de Percel, De l'usage des romans (1734) André Le Breton, Le Roman au XVII siècle (1890) Paul Morillot, Le Roman en France depuis 1610 (1894) JJ Jusserand, Le Roman anglais au XVII siècle (1888) References 17th-century books