Warwick

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  • Jean-François de La Harpe.
    In Jean-François de La Harpe

    …are perhaps his first tragedy, Warwick (1763), and Mélanie (1778), a pathetic drama never performed. He wrote criticism for and was editor of the Mercure de France, becoming respected, though often disliked, for his unsympathetic views. In 1786, after being coldly admitted to the French Academy, he began to lecture…

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