Jean de La Taille (c.1540 – c.1607) was a French poet and dramatist born in Bondaroy. He studied the humanities in Paris under Muretus, and law at Orléans...

where he was an economic correspondent. De La Taille was a descendant of the poet and playwright Jean de La Taille. He was a media pioneer, able to explain...

has no claim to be the originator of French comedy—the Corrivaux of Jean de la Taille dates from 1562—but Larivey naturalized the Italian comedy of intrigue...

by theoreticians of the New Learning (Jean de La Taille) and other writers (Jean Vauquelin de la Fresnaye and Jean Mairet). The support which the unities...

"La Complainte de la Butte" (English: "The Lament of the Mound") is a French love song, written by Jean Renoir, set to music by Georges van Parys, and...

Not all writers were as bellicosely committed to a side as Ronsard. Jean de la Taille bemoaned a situation where father would be turned against son, and...

Bible (revised version) Jean de la Taille – Saül le furieux Luís de Camões – Os Lusiadas Fernando de Herrera – Canción por la Victoria del Señor don Juan...

Brantôme (between 1589 and 1614) Discours sur les Duels, p. 312; Jean de la Taille (1609) Discours Notable des Duels, p. 82; and Vital d’Audiguier (1617)...

Roche-Guilhem (1644–1707), novelist. Jean de La Taille, playwright. Key work: From the Art of Tragedy. Georgette de Montenay (1540–1607), poet. Marie Dentière...

(1560) Jean Antoine de Baïf L'Eunuque (1565), a version of Terence's Eunuchus Le Brave (1567) – a version of Plautus's Miles gloriosus Jean de la Taille Les...