02844nam 2200517Ia 450 991097051050332120200520144314.0(CKB)2670000000529616(EBL)436290(OCoLC)609838455(SSID)ssj0000555156(PQKBManifestationID)12169007(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000555156(PQKBWorkID)10517127(PQKB)11298197(MiAaPQ)EBC3002911(EXLCZ)99267000000052961619920903d1993 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrMoliere the theory and practice of comedy /Andrew Calder1st ed.London ;Atlantic Highlands Athlone Press19931 online resource (256 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-485-11427-5 Includes bibliographical references (p. [228]-233) and index.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; IndexThe 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 toFrench drama17th centuryHistory and criticismTheory, etcFrench drama (Comedy)History and criticismTheory, etcFrench dramaHistory and criticismTheory, etc.French drama (Comedy)History and criticismTheory, etc.842/.4Calder Andrew1942-778101MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910970510503321Moliere4447352UNINA