Publications

Books authored:

• Confidential Strategies: the evolving role of the "confident" in French tragic drama (1635-1677), Travaux du grand siècle XII, Geneva, Droz, 1999.
• Cassell Guide to Literature in French, London, Cassell, 1996; new edition 1999

Critical editions authored and co-authored:

• Jean Racine, Alexandre le Grand, Exeter, Exeter French Texts, 1990. (with M. Hawcroft)

Chapters in books:

• ‘Medicine’, in Molière in Context. Edited by Jan Clarke (Cambridge: CUP, 2022), pp. 36-44.
• ‘La théâtralisation de la naissance du dauphin (1601) chez Louise Bourgeois, sage-femme de Marie de Médicis', in Le "Théâtral" de la France d'Ancien Régime, ed. S. Chaouche, Paris, Honoré Champion, 2010 (pp.137-154).

Articles in journals:

• '"C'est, pourtant, l'œuvre d'une Fille »: Mlle Desjardins à l'Hôtel de Bourgogne', Littératures classiques, 51, 2004 (pp. 105-120). See PDF.
• 'Listening to Racine's confidents', Seventeenth-Century French Studies, 22, 2000 (pp. 51-62).
• 'La Querelle du confident et la structure dramaturgique des premières pièces de Racine', Littératures Classiques, 16, 1992 (pp. 229-246). See PDF.
• 'Optimism and Misanthropy: some seventeenth-century models in a late eighteenth-century debate', Seventeenth-Century French Studies, 13, 1991 (pp. 163-178).
• 'The shape of things to come: Racine’s revisions of Alexandre (1666-1697)', French Studies, 44-4, 1990 (pp. 385-402).
• ’"Je te vais retracer le tableau de ma gloire": the evocative power of language in Cyrano de Bergerac’s La Mort d’Agrippine', Seventeenth-Century French Studies, 11, 1989 (pp. 80-93).

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