title: Royal Disclosure: Problematics of Representation in French Classical Tragedy
author: Harriet Stone
description: ...Royal DisClosure will and should be read by students of the Classical stage. It offers intriguing and subtle analyses of the power of that stage, its hold over us, and our subjugation to it. --South Atlantic Review<br /><br />...The wealth and breadth of critical perspectives that Stone brings to bear on Racine's and Corneille's theater lead to original and enlightening readings of the texts... there is much of interest to be found in these pages. --Continuum<br /><br />...Stone's itinerary is highly original as she juxtaposes and probes various texts and their critical contexts...(her study) offers the rewards of raising new questions about texts we have read many, many times over. --Papers on Seventeenth-Century French Literature<br /><br />...The wealth and breadth of critical perspectives that Stone brings to bear on Racine's and Corneille's theater lead to original and enlightening readings of the texts... there is much of interest to be found in these pages. --Continuum<br /><br />...Stone's itinerary is highly original as she juxtaposes and probes various texts and their critical contexts...(her study) offers the rewards of raising new questions about texts we have read many, many times over. --Papers on Seventeenth-Century French Literature
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  # Dramatic Romances
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Robert Browning
  
  
  This page copyright © 2001 Munsey's.
  
  
  INCIDENT OF THE FRENCH CAMP.
  
  
  THE PATRIOT.
  
  
  MY LAST DUCHESS.
  
  
  COUNT GISMOND.
  
  
  THE BOY AND THE ANGEL.
  
  
  INSTANS TYRANNUS.
  
  
  MESMERISM.
  
  
  THE GLOVE.
  
  
  TIME'S REVENGES.
  
  
  THE ITALIAN IN ENGLAND.
  
  
  THE ENGLISHMAN IN ITALY.
  
  
  IN A GONDOLA.
  
  
  
  
  
  WARING.
  
  
    
  I.
  
  
    
  II.
  
  
    
  THE TWINS.
  
  
    
  A LIGHT WOMAN.
  
  
    
  THE LAST RIDE TOGETHER.
  
  
    
  THE PIED PIPER OF HAMELIN;
  
  
    
  THE FLIGHT OF THE DUCHESS.
  
  
    
  A GRAMMARIAN'S FUNERAL,
  
  
    
  THE HERETIC'S TRAGEDY.
  
  
    
  HOLY-CROSS DAY.
  
  
    
  PROTUS.
  
  
    
  THE STATUE AND THE BUST.
  
  
    
  PORPHYRIA'S LOVER.
  
  
    
  ``CHILDE ROLAND TO THE DARK TOWER CAME.''
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  INCIDENT OF THE FRENCH CAMP.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
    
  I.
  
  
    
    
  You know, we French stormed Ratisbon:
  
  
    
  A mile or so away,
  
  
    
  On a little mound, Napoleon
  
  
    
  Stood on our storming-day;
  
  
    
  With neck out-thrust, you fancy how,
  
  
    
  Legs wide, arms lock