Molière in context / edited by Jan Clarke.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Clarke, Jan, 1956- editor.

Series:

Literature in context (Cambridge University Press)

Literature in context

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Molière, 1622-1673.

Molière.

Molière, 1622-1673--Criticism and interpretation.

Dramatists, French--17th century--Biography.

Dramatists, French.

French drama--17th century--History and criticism.

French drama.

Theater--France--History--17th century.

Theater.

France--Civilization--17th century.

France.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxix, 371 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2022.

Summary:

The definitive guide to Molière's world and his afterlife, this is an accessible contextual guide for academics, undergraduates and theatre professionals alike. Interdisciplinary and diverse in scope, each chapter offers a different perspective on the social, cultural, intellectual, and theatrical environment within which Molière operated, as well as demonstrating his subsequent impact both within France and across the world. Offering fresh insight for those working in the fields of French Studies, Theatre and Performance Studies and French History, Molière in Context is an exceptional tribute to the premier French dramatist on the 400th anniversary of his birth.

Contents:

A bourgeois at court / Mathieu da Vinha, translated by Jan Clarke

The religious climate / Julia Prest

Medicine / Valerie Worth-Stylianou

Family law / Janine Lanza

Women / Wendy Perkins

Gender, masculinity and cross-dressing / Joseph Harris

Philosophical influences / Jean-Luc Robin

Molière and classical theatre / Michael Call

The survival of medieval and renaissance professional practices / Marie Bouhaïk-Gironès, translated by Margherita Carra

Commedia dell'arte / Claude Bourqui, translated by Margherita Carra

The literary establishment / Richard Maber

Are the précieuses only ridicules? Molière, salon culture and the shaping of France's collective memory / Faith E. Beasley

Molière's theatres in Paris / Philippe Cornuaille, translated by Jan Clarke

Stage design in Paris / Philippe Cornuaille, translated by Jan Clarke

Company administration / Jan Clarke

The theatre industry and cultures of consumption / Sabine Chaouche

Acting style / Sabine Chaouche

Colbert, cultural policy and the propaganda of spectacle / Georgia Cowart

The decors of comedy-ballet : from the 'Songe de Vaux' to the 'Rêve de Versailles' / Marie-Claude Canova-Green, translated by Sally Wagstaffe

Court performances and their audiences / Laura Naudeix, translated by Sally Wagstaffe

Music / Anne Piéjus, translated by Sally Wagstaffe

The livrets of Molière's plays / Marine Roussillon, translated by Jan Clarke

Audience laughter / Coline Piot, translated by Hayley Shaw

The triumph of publicity / Christophe Schuwey, translated by Hayley Shaw

Molière and his critics : the 'Querelles' / Jeanne-Marie Hostiou, translated by Hayley Shaw

Molière and his publishers / Michael Call

Molière in print / Michael Hawcroft

Early modern English translations of Molière / Suzanne Jones

Molière at the Hôtel Guénégaud and the comédie-française : the early years / Jan Clarke

Comedy after Molière / Guy Spielmann

Molière as national hero / Mechele Leon

Molière in performance : twentieth- and twenty-first-century productions / Noël Peacock

Molière on the modern anglophone stage / Cédric Ploix

Who and what is Molière? The film director's perspective / Noël Peacock

Molière in the Arab world / Angela Daiana Langone, translated by Jan Clarke

Digital Molière / Claude Bourqui, translated by Margherita Carra.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 10 Nov 2022).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781316999424

1316999424

9781108662529

1108662528

9781108694933

1108694934