This book is the first full-length study to examine MoliYreAEs evolving (and at times contradictory) authorial strategies, as evidenced both by his portrayal of authors and publication within the plays and by his own interactions with the seventeenth-century Parisian publishing industry. Historians of the book have described the time period that coincides with MoliYreAEs theatrical activity as centrally important to the development of authorsAE rights and to the professionalization of the literary field. A seventeenth-century author, however, was not so much born as negotiated through often...