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Rotrou’S Bélisaire: Hierarchy And Meaning, Nina Ekstein
Rotrou’S Bélisaire: Hierarchy And Meaning, Nina Ekstein
Modern Languages and Literatures Faculty Research
Bélisaire (1643) differs significantly from the bulk of Rotrou’s theater, perhaps above all in its array of profoundly disparate features. The notion of hierarchy offers a means of organizing the dissimilar elements and understanding the play as a whole. Like so many of Rotrou’s plays, the subject is not original. Its source is Mira de Amescua’s El ejemplo mayor de la Desdicha.