Guyon Guérin de Bouscal
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Guyon Guérin de Bouscal (1613–1657) was a French dramatist and novelist.

Selected works

  • Oroondate (performed 1643), a parody of the widespread literary models of heroic courtship
  • a trilogy based on Don Quixote (performed 1638-9), notable for its accomplished use of the burlesque
    Burlesque
    Burlesque is a literary, dramatic or musical work intended to cause laughter by caricaturing the manner or spirit of serious works, or by ludicrous treatment of their subjects...

     and thought to have been adapted and played by Molière's company as Le Gouvernement de Sancho Pansa in 1660.
  • La mort de Brute et de Porcie (1637), on the deaths of Brutus
    Marcus Junius Brutus
    Marcus Junius Brutus , often referred to as Brutus, was a politician of the late Roman Republic. After being adopted by his uncle he used the name Quintus Servilius Caepio Brutus, but eventually returned to using his original name...

     and his wife Portia
    Porcia Catonis
    Porcia Catonis, also known simply as Porcia was a Roman woman who lived in the 1st century BC. She was the daughter of Marcus Porcius Cato Uticencis and his first wife Atilia...

  • One novel

External links

  • http://www.answers.com/topic/maurice-de-gu-rin-2
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