Molière : the theory and practice of comedy
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Molière : the theory and practice of comedy
Athlone Press, 1993
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Bibliography: p. [228]-233
Includes index
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Description
The history of ideas provides an important means of understanding and reinterpreting the literature of the past. In this study, Calder demonstrates this by applying the approach to the comedies of Moliere. The author outlines a new theory of classical comedy, which also applies to the works of other French writers, and provides an historical reinterpretation of Moliere's two most difficult plays: "Le Tartuffe" and "Don Juan".
Table of Contents
- Character
- plot and action - the plots of the new comedy, comic fate
- comedy and the ridiculous
- reason and the ridiculous
- body and soul - a physiology of laughter
- honnetete
- judgement
- sociability, reason and laughter
- families
- Aristotelian pedants
- medicine
- preciosity
- "Le Tartuffe"
- "Don Juan" and "the hidden God"
- the philosophy of Moliere.
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