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

• Autore: Calder Andrew
• 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
• 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.: 9910787884803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II