mind of Roger supplies a genuine dramatic interest in the manner of Corneille. Les Juives is the moving story of the barbarous vengeance of Nebuchadnezzar on the Jewish king Zedekiah and his children. The Jewish women lamenting the fate of their children take a principal part in this tragedy, which, although almost entirely elegiac in conception, is singularly well designed, and gains unity by the personality of the prophet. (The critic M. Faguet says that of all French tragedies of the 16th and 17th centuries it is, with Athalie, the best constructed with regard to the requirements of the stage. Actual representation is continually in the mind of the author; his drama is, in fact, visually conceived.) Gamier must be regarded as the greatest French tragic poet of the Renaissance and the precursor of the baroque theater of the 17th century. He exercised a major influence on the development of Elizabethan tragedy. Thomas Kyd is the likely author of an English translation of Cornélie published in England in the early 1590s. Dramatic works Porcie, tragedy , Paris, Robert Estienne, 1568 (éd. J.-C. Ternaux, Paris, Champion, 1999) Hippolyte, tragedy , Paris, Robert Estienne, 1573 (éd. R. Lebègue, Paris, Les Belles Lettres, 1949 et J.-D. Beaudin, Paris, Garnier, 2009) Cornélie, tragedy , Paris, Robert Estienne, 1574 (éd. J.-C. Ternaux, Paris, Champion, 2002) Marc-Antoine, tragedy , Paris, M. Patisson, 1578 (éd. J.-C. Ternaux, Paris, Garnier, 2010) La Troade, tragedy , Paris, M. Patisson, 1579 (éd. J.-D. Beaudin, Paris, Champion, 1999) Antigone ou la Piété, tragedy , Paris, M. Patisson, 1580 (éd. J.-D. Beaudin, Paris, Champion, 1997) Bradamante, tragicomedy, Paris, M. Patisson, 1582 Les Juives, tragedy , Paris, M. Patisson, 1583 (éd. par S. Lardon, Paris, Champion, 1999; éd. Michel Jeanneret, Gallimard, Folio- Théâtre, 2007) References External links 1544 births 1590 deaths People from Sarthe 16th-century French poets 16th-century French dramatists and playwrights