INTRODUCTION TO THE DRAMAS OF BALZAC

BY

EPIPHANIUS WILSON
AND
J. WALKER MCSPADDEN



CONTENTS

Balzac as a Dramatist
By Epiphanius Wilson

Introduction
By J. Walker McSpadden



BALZAC AS A DRAMATIST

BY

EPIPHANIUS WILSON

Honore de Balzac is known to the world in general as a novel-writer, a
producer of romances, in which begin the reign of realism in French
fiction. His _Comedie Humaine_ is a description of French society, as
it existed from the time of the Revolution to that of the Restoration.