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Molière's Strategies

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Of all the playwrights from the age of Louis XIV, only Molière's work is still regularly performed in France and beyond. This book analyses certain elements of the plays that may explain Molière's longevity: a plausible chain of events peppered with shocks and surprises; tensions between opposites; intellectual concerns that had not previously been the province of comedy; and plots founded on situations that are anything but comic. These hallmarks added up to an intense type of comic theatre, meaningful in ways that gave the genre a new dimension. The author of this study does not treat Molière's plays as variations on a single prototype, but brings a fresh approach to each. The book's witty, learned and penetrating readings examine critical issues such as the ambiguous anti-feminism of Les Femmes savantes, Molière's revisions of the myth of Don Juan, 'conversion' as the theological starting point of Le Tartuffe, contrariety as the basis of comedies such as George Dandin and Le Misanthrope, and coded satire in the comédie-ballets. Each play is revealed to have a seamless comic design, while at the same time speaking to the wider world. Molière's works are shown to be entirely and immediately involved in human society, in the social dimension of the human condition.
About the Author: Walter E. Rex (1927-2010) was a professor of French literature at the University of California, Berkeley. His publications included Essays on Pierre Bayle and Religious Controversy (1965), Pascal's Provincial Letters: An Introduction (1977), The Attraction of the Contrary: Essays on the Literature of the French Enlightenment (1987), Diderot's Counterpoints: The Dynamics of Contrariety in his Major Works (1998) and the co-edited multi-volume Inventory of Diderot's 'Encyclopédie' (1971-84). A talented musician, he also wrote and taught classes about eighteenth-century music and painting in relation to literature.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9783034309202
  • Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
  • Publisher Imprint: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
  • Depth: 19
  • Height: 224 mm
  • No of Pages: 326
  • Series Title: Medieval and Early Modern French Studies
  • Sub Title: Timely Reflections on His Art of Comedy
  • Width: 150 mm
  • ISBN-10: 3034309201
  • Publisher Date: 11 Jul 2013
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Edition: New ed
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 23 mm
  • Weight: 503 gr


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