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GRIFFITHS, R., The Dramatic Technique of Antoine de Montchrestien. Rhetoric and Style in French Renaissance Tragedy. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1970. XIII,236p. Original blue cloth. Spine gilt titled. ‘This book suffers, on the critical side, from a basic ambivalence, which is apparent in the title. Mr. Griffith’s main thesis is that Montchrestien’s tragedies are properly to be judged from the point of view of sixteenth-century rhetoric and style. At the same time, he finds its necessary to deal with them, in a tortured way, as drama. The study falls short essentially because he does not reconcile the two points of vies. The rhetorical and stylistic analyses are not persuasive.’ (NORMAN B. SPECTOR in Renaissance Quarterly, 1971, p.543). € 15.00 (Antiquarian)