Moliere
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Moliere

The Theory and Practice of Comedy

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  2. English
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Moliere

The Theory and Practice of Comedy

About this book

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 serve as an introduction to MoliFre and French classical comedy at large and will be of considerable value to younger students and readers of MoliFre in general.

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Information

Publisher
The Athlone Press
Year
2000
Print ISBN
9780485114270
Edition
1
eBook ISBN
9781847142719
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literary Criticism
Index
Literature
Plot
and
Action
I: 
The
Plots
of
New
Comedy
25
and
dull.
In
Depit
amoureux,
the
plot
is 
so
complicated
and 
the
surprises
are 
so
laboured 
that
the
play,
in
spite
of 
its
many 
good
comic 
moments,
sinks
under 
their 
weight.
Only
when
he 
re-
turned
to 
the
formula
of 
New
Comedy 
late
in 
his
career,
in
Les
Fourberies
de
Scapin,
did
Moliere 
achieve
the
elegance, 
speed
and
charm
which
the
genre 
demanded.
The
conventions
of 
New
Comedy
plots 
were 
never
to 
be
abandoned 
completely
by
Moliere,
but 
in
most
of 
his
major
plays
the
pleasures
of
complexity,
of
confused 
identity
and
surprise,
were
to 
be
replaced
by
pleasures
of 
a
different
kind.

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Preface
  3. CHAPTER ONE: Character
  4. CHAPTER TWO: Plot and Action I: The Plots of New Comedy
  5. CHAPTER THREE: Plot and Action II: Comic Fate
  6. CHAPTER FOUR: Comedy and the Ridiculous
  7. CHAPTER FIVE: Reason and the Ridiculous
  8. CHAPTER SIX: Body and Soul: A Physiology of Laughter
  9. CHAPTER SEVEN: Honnêteté
  10. CHAPTER EIGHT: Judgement
  11. CHAPTER NINE: Sociability, Reason and Laughter
  12. CHAPTER TEN: Families
  13. CHAPTER ELEVEN: Aristotelian Pedants
  14. CHAPTER TWELVE: Medicine
  15. CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Preciosity
  16. CHAPTER FOURTEEN: Le Tartuffe
  17. CHAPTER FIFTEEN: Dom Juan and 'the hidden God'
  18. CHAPTER SIXTEEN: Molière's Philosophy
  19. Chronology
  20. Notes
  21. Bibliography
  22. Index

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