FR216 French Theatre, Novel and Poetry of the 18th Century 0.5 A study of the most important novelists, dramatists, and poets of this period: Lesage, Pr‚vost, Voltaire, Marivaux, Sedaine, Beaumarchais, Ch‚nier, Laclos and Sade. The changes in theatre and poetry which took place will be discussed as well as the social and literary phenomena which brought them about. Prerequisite: FR155* or FR205*.