• Look at the originals!
  • Go to Gallica for reproductions of the editions of 1616 and 1630.
• Recommended text edition and translation
  • Agrippa d'Aubigné. Les Tragiques, ed. by Frank Lestringant (Paris: Gallimard, 1995)
  • Agrippa d'Aubigné's Les Tragiques, translated, annotated, and with an introduction by Valerie Worth-Stylianou (2020).
• Lecture handout 
• Seminar worksheet  
• Suggested further reading:
  • Malcolm Quainton, D'Aubigné. Les Tragiques (London: Grant & Cutler, 1990) - a basic introduction, still useful for a first orientation, but needs to be followed up with much more advanced criticism
  • Frank Lestringant, Lire Les Tragiques d'Agrippa d'Aubigné, revised edn, with the collaboration of Jean-Charles Monferran, Études et essais sur la Renaissance 102 (Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2013) - the standard introduction
  • Phillip John Usher, Epic Arts in Renaissance France (Oxford University Press, 2014), ch. 4: ‘D’Aubigné’s Tragiques: A Wasteland of Graffiti’ – available as an e-book from Oxford Scholarship Online through Warwick University Library (DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199687848.003.0005) (log-in required).