Le Joueur [Paperback]

This 1918 volume contains the French text of Jean-Fran?ois Regnard's 1696 comic play Le Joueur, edited by Arthur Tilley.Arthur Tilleys 1918 edition of Jean Fran?ois Regnards 1696 play Le Joueur or The Gamester. Regnard was a talented comic playwright, born in Paris in 1655. The full French text of Le Joueur is included, complete with explanatory notes on the more difficult aspects of Regnards language.Arthur Tilleys 1918 edition of Jean Fran?ois Regnards 1696 play Le Joueur or The Gamester. Regnard was a talented comic playwright, born in Paris in 1655. The full French text of Le Joueur is included, complete with explanatory notes on the more difficult aspects of Regnards language.This volume contains the French text of Jean-Fran?ois Regnard's 1696 comic play Le Joueur, edited by Arthur Tilley and first published in 1918. Tilley's edition draws principally from the text of G. d'Heylli's 1876 edition of the Th??tre du Regnard and adopts modernised spelling, punctuation, and arrangement of scenes. The text of the play is supported by an introduction, examining the life of Regnard and the reception of Le Joueur, and notes on some of the more difficult words and phrases that appear in the work for which Tilley consulted several contemporary seventeenth-century dictionaries.Preface; Introduction; Text; Notes.