Cambridge Companion to Moliï¿½re

Name: Cambridge Companion to Moliï¿½re
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ISBN: 9780521546652

ISBN-10: 0521546656

ISBN-13: 9780521546652

Edition: 2006

Authors: David Bradby, Andrew Calder

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A detailed introduction to Moli� and his plays, this Companion evokes his own theatrical career, his theatres, patrons, the performers and theatre staff with whom he worked, and the various publics he and his troupes entertained with such success. It looks at his particular brands of comedy and satire. L'� ole des femmes, Le Tartuffe, Dom Juan, Le Misanthrope, L'Avare and Les Femmes savantes are examined from a variety of different viewpoints, and through the eyes of different ages and cultures. The comedies-ballets, a genre invented by Moli� and his collaborators, are re-instated to the central position which they held in his � uvre in Moli� 's own lifetime; his two masterpieces in this…

Book details

List price: $39.99
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 9/14/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 268
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 0.990

Andrew Calder has recently retired from a Readership in the French Department at University College London.



List of illustrations


Notes on contributors


Preface


Chronology



The career strategy of an actor turned playwright: 'de l'audace, encore de l'audace, toujours de l'audace'




The material conditions of Moliere's stage




The master and the mirror: Scaramouche and Moliere




Moliere as satirist




How (and why) not to take Moliere too seriously




L'Avare or Harpagon's masterclass in comedy




Laughter and irony in Le Misanthrope




Comedies-ballets




Le Bourgeois gentilhomme: Moliere and music




Medicine and entertainment in Le Malade imaginaire




Moliere and the teaching of Frenchness: Les Femmes savantes as a case study




L'Ecole des femmes: matrimony and the laws of chance




Moliere nationalised: Tartuffe on the British stage from the Restoration to the present day




Landmark twentieth-century productions of Moliere: a transatlantic perspective on Moliere: mise en scene and its historiography




Dom Juan the Directors' Play




'Reculer pour mieux sauter': modern experimental theatre's debt to Moliere



Select bibliography


Index