Publications de la faculté des Sciences Humaines et Sociales, Série 8 : Lettres, Université de Tunis, 1995, 332 pages.
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" The Jacobeans found in the theme of violence a powerful means of expression, which was accessible to a hugely credulous audience which was little touched by subtle psychological analyses and incapable of going beyond a lively natural sensitivity. They were not original in unleashing on the stage all those gory spectacles that we, naïvely, reproach them for today. War, suicide, duelling, tragic death and torture were all known before and after the reign of James I. At that time, poets were inspired by a Romanticism before it really existed, and to the idea of the liberated word, they added a particular technique which, as we shall see, recalls baroque tendencies flourishing elsewhere in Europe at the time, and especially in Italy.
(Introduction, p.12.)