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Autore |
Calder Andrew |
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Titolo |
Molière [[electronic resource] ] : The Theory and Practice of Comedy |
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London, : Continuum International Publishing, 2000 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (256 p.) |
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Soggetti |
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Molière |
French drama - Theory, etc - History and criticism - 17th century |
French drama (Comedy) - History and criticism - Theory, etc |
Romance Literatures |
Languages & Literatures |
French Literature |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Preface; CHAPTER ONE: Character; CHAPTER TWO: Plot and Action I: The Plots of New Comedy; CHAPTER THREE: Plot and Action II: Comic Fate; CHAPTER FOUR: Comedy and the Ridiculous; CHAPTER FIVE: Reason and the Ridiculous; CHAPTER SIX: Body and Soul: A Physiology of Laughter; CHAPTER SEVEN: Honnêteté; CHAPTER EIGHT: Judgement; CHAPTER NINE: Sociability, Reason and Laughter; CHAPTER TEN: Families; CHAPTER ELEVEN: Aristotelian Pedants; CHAPTER TWELVE: Medicine; CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Preciosity; CHAPTER FOURTEEN: Le Tartuffe; CHAPTER FIFTEEN: Dom Juan and 'the hidden God' |
CHAPTER SIXTEEN: Molière's PhilosophyChronology; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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The history of ideas provides an important means of understanding and reinterpreting the literature of the past; and in this study Dr. Calder demonstrates the illumination that this informed approach brings to the comedies of MoliFre. In the course of this study, the author outlines a fresh theory of classical comedy which applies to the works of other |
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