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GREVIN, JACQUES (c.1539—1570)

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GREVIN, JACQUES (c.1539—1570) , See also:French dramatist, was See also:born at Clermont about 1539. He studied See also:medicine at the university of See also:Paris. He became a See also:disciple of See also:Ronsard, and was one of the See also:band of dramatists who sought to introduce the classical See also:drama in See also:France. As Sainte-Beuve points out, the comedies of Grevin show considerable See also:affinity with the farces and soties that preceded them. His first See also:play, La 1Jaubertiiee, was lost, and formed the basis of a new See also:comedy, La Tresoriere, first performed at the See also:college of See also:Beauvais in 1558, though it had been originally composed at the See also:desire of See also:Henry II. to celebrate the See also:marriage of See also:Claude, duchess of See also:Lorraine. In 156o followed the tragedy of Jules Cesar, imitated from the Latin of Muret, and a comedy, See also:Les Ebahis, the most important but also the most indecent of his See also:works. Grevin was also the author of some medical works and of See also:miscellaneous poems, which were praised by Ronsard until the friend's were separated by religious See also:differences. Grevin became in 1561 physician and counsellor to See also:Margaret of See also:Savoy, and died at her See also:court in See also:Turin in 1570. The See also:Theatre of Jacques G1-vin was printed in 1562, and in the Ancien Theatre See also:francais, vol. iv. (1855-1856). See L. Pinvert, Jacques Grevin (1899).

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