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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463761403321

Autore

Calder Andrew

Titolo

Molière [[electronic resource] ] : The Theory and Practice of Comedy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Continuum International Publishing, 2000

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (256 p.)

Disciplina

842.4

842/.4

Soggetti

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.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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



French writers of the 17th century; and the historical reinterpretations of MoliFre's two most difficult plays -- Le Tartuffe and Dom Juan -- break entirely new ground.Although this is a work which specialists will admire, it is also intended to