The Cambridge Companion to Moliere

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Paperback | 14 September 2006

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A detailed introduction to Moliere 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'Ecole 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 Moliere and his collaborators, are re-instated to the central position which they held in his oeuvre in Moliere's own lifetime; his two masterpieces in this genre, Le Bourgeois gentilhomme and Le Malade imaginaire, have chapters to themselves. Finally, the Companion looks at modern directors' theatre, exploring the central role played by productions of his work in successive 'revolutions' in the dramatic arts in France.

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"The highest compliment that one can pay to this well-written, appropriately illustrated book is that it spurs us on to revisit Moliere. These essays demonstrate the appropriateness of the focus on Moliere in the past decade, first with the creation of the admirable toutmolier.net website, then with the publication of the eminently useful Moliere Encyclopedia in 2002, and now with the Cambridge Companion." - Ronald W. Tobin, University of California, Santa Barbara

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List of illustrations	p. vii
Notes on contributors	p. ix
Preface	p. xiii
Chronology	p. xv
The career strategy of an actor turned playwright: 'de l'audace, encore de l'audace, toujours de l'audace'	p. 1
The material conditions of Moliere's stage	p. 15
The master and the mirror: Scaramouche and Moliere	p. 37
Moliere as satirist	p. 57
How (and why) not to take Moliere too seriously	p. 71
L'Avare or Harpagon's masterclass in comedy	p. 83
Laughter and irony in Le Misanthrope	p. 95
Comedies-ballets	p. 107
Le Bourgeois gentilhomme: Moliere and music	p. 121
Medicine and entertainment in Le Malade imaginaire	p. 139
Moliere and the teaching of Frenchness: Les Femmes savantes as a case study	p. 151
L'Ecole des femmes: matrimony and the laws of chance	p. 165
Moliere nationalised: Tartuffe on the British stage from the Restoration to the present day	p. 177
Landmark twentieth-century productions of Moliere: a transatlantic perspective on Moliere: mise en scene and its historiography	p. 189
Dom Juan the Directors' Play	p. 201
'Reculer pour mieux sauter': modern experimental theatre's debt to Moliere	p. 215
Select bibliography	p. 229
Index	p. 239
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