What is it about?
An actor using the stage name Merlin who dominated comic acting in the period after the death of Molière and for whom many interesting roles were created by major dramatists of the time.
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Why is it important?
Less attention is paid to the period following the death of Molière than it deserves.
Perspectives
This article was written in part as a valedictory greeting to my former tutor Dr Merlin Thomas of New College Oxford. NB It has no Arthurian connections at all - Merlin was simply the stage name used by an actor (equivalent to Philippin or Scaramouche).
Dr Edward R.B. Forman
University of Bristol
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This page is a summary of: Merlin at the Comedie-Francaise 1685–1693, Seventeenth-Century French Studies, January 1988, Maney Publishing,
DOI: 10.1179/026510688793656198.
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