Author: Alvin Eustis
Publisher:
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Category : Irony
Languages : en
Pages : 231

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Author: Alvin Eustis
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110873397
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 232

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Author: Alvin Allen Eustis
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Irony
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Michael Hawcroft
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199228833
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 247

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Molière wrote, directed, and starred in comedies for public and court audiences in seventeenth-century France. He is perennially successful, but perennially subject to critical controversy: do his plays aim to do more than make audiences laugh? This book focuses on a group of characters in the plays, the interpretation of whose role lies at the heart of any answer to this question. For over a century critics have baptised them 'raisonneurs'. They are characters who engagewith some of Molière's most foolish protagonists, but they have been variously interpreted as exponents of wisdom or as ridiculous bores. This book argues that new light can be shed on the words and actions of these characters, and so on the tenor of the plays as a whole, by detailed contextual analysis of thedramaturgical and comic structures in which they operate. They have never before been treated so exhaustively. They emerge neither as the mouthpieces of common sense nor as pompous fools, but as thoughtful, witty, and resourceful friends of the foolish protagonists whom Molière himself played. The book takes into account what is known of the performance styles of Molière's troupe of actors as well as engaging closely with the text of the plays and the critical debate to date. Someof Molière's most teasingly problematic plays are held up to fresh scrutiny, including L'Ecole des femmes, Le Tartuffe, Le Misanthrope, and Le Malade imaginaire. The book is written with scholars, students, and interested theatre-goers in mind. This is the first book-length treatment of the topic.

Author: William Driver Howarth
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 9780521286794
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 360

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This study explores the evolution of Molière's comedy as a careful amalgamation of comedy and philosophical satire.

Author: James F. Gaines
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 031307657X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 549

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Born Jean-Baptiste Poquelin in 1622, the French playwright Moli^D`ere became one of the most influential dramatists of the 17th century. His comedies shaped the development of theater in Europe, inspired his contemporaries in England, and left a lasting dramatic legacy after his death in 1673. Moli^D`re has also inspired a vast body of scholarship, and recent work has dispelled many of the myths surrounding his career. This reference provides English-speaking readers with a current and comprehensive guide to his life and works. Hundreds of A-Z entries cover topics related to his life, works, and theatrical career, including: Plays; Individual characters; Historical persons; Allusions; Influences; Cultural institutions; And much more. This scrupulously researched volume relies on verifiable facts, giving scant attention to the romantic fiction surrounding the playwright. Many of the entries list works for further reading. A chronology outlines the chief events of Moli^D`re's life and his contributions to the stage. The volume concludes with a bibliography.

Author: Nicholas Grene
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349081124
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 260

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Author: David Bradby
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139827294
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 11

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A detailed introduction to Molière and his plays, this Companion evokes his own theatrical career, his theatres, patrons, the performers and theatre staff with whom he worked, and the various publics he and his troupes entertained with such success. It looks at his particular brands of comedy and satire. L'École des femmes, Le Tartuffe, Dom Juan, Le Misanthrope, L'Avare and Les Femmes savantes are examined from a variety of different viewpoints, and through the eyes of different ages and cultures. The comedies-ballets, a genre invented by Molière and his collaborators, are re-instated to the central position which they held in his œuvre in Molière's own lifetime; his two masterpieces in this genre, Le Bourgeois gentilhomme and Le Malade imaginaire, have chapters to themselves. Finally, the Companion looks at modern directors' theatre, exploring the central role played by productions of his work in successive 'revolutions' in the dramatic arts in France.

Author: Peter H. Nurse
Publisher: Librairie Droz
ISBN: 9782600036719
Category : Comic, The
Languages : en
Pages : 148

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Author: Philip A. Wadsworth
Publisher: Summa Publications, Inc.
ISBN: 9780917786709
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 154

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