Excerpt from The French Tragi-Comedy: Its Origin and Development From 1552 to 1628; Dissertation Submitted to the Board of University Studies of the Johns Hopkins University in Conformity With the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy At some time I hope to treat the second of these periods, but at present I confine myself to the first. The following pages will therefore be devoted to an investigation of the sources of the tragi-comedy, as they are found in France and other parts of Europe, to the development of the genre in the former country, and to a study of the tragi-comedies written from 1552 to 1628. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.