Moliere : the theory and practice of comedy / Andrew Calder.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Calder, Andrew, 1942-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

French drama--17th century--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

French drama.

French drama (Comedy)--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

French drama (Comedy).

Molière, 1622-1673--Criticism and interpretation.

Molière.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; Atlantic Highlands : Athlone Press, 1993.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [228]-233) and index.

OCLC:

609838455