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From the high Classical French theater through the unofficial and private theaters, the beginnings of French opera and ballet in the late 17th and early 18th centuries, to the development of the drame bourgeois and the theater criticism of the French Enlightenment. Authors to be studied will include among others Corneille, Molière, Racine, Le Sage, Marivaux, Voltaire, Diderot, and Beaumarchais. This class is open to suitably qualified undergraduates with permission of the instructor. This class will include a short performance component.