biography
pronunciation:
[larivay]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (c.1550–1619)
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| biography:
| Playwright, born in Champagne, NE France. As the introducer of Italian-style comedy to the French stage, he foreshadowed Molière. His licentious Comédies facétieuses (2 vols, 1579, 1611) were adaptations of existing Italian pieces. |
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