Molière [[electronic resource] ] : The Theory and Practice of Comedy
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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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| Pubblicazione: | London, : Continuum International Publishing, 2000 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (256 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 842.4 |
| 842/.4 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Molière |
| French drama - Theory, etc - History and criticism - 17th century | |
| French drama (Comedy) - History and criticism - Theory, etc | |
| Romance Literatures | |
| Languages & Literatures | |
| French Literature | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Molière |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910463761403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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