Molière in Context

Molière in Context
Author: Jan Clarke
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 667
Release: 2022-11-24
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1316999424


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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.


Molière in Context
Language: en
Pages: 667
Authors: Jan Clarke
Categories: Drama
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-11-24 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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The definitive guide to Molière's world and his afterlife, this is an accessible contextual guide for academics, undergraduates and theatre professionals alike
Molière
Language: en
Pages: 350
Authors: Virginia Scott
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002-05-16 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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This biography of Molière was first published in 2000 and will appeal to general reader and specialists in French and Theatre Studies.
The Cambridge Companion to Moliere
Language: en
Pages: 11
Authors: David Bradby
Categories: Drama
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-09-14 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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A detailed introduction to Molière and his plays, this Companion evokes his own theatrical career, his theatres, patrons, the performers and theatre staff with
Controversy in French Drama
Language: en
Pages: 247
Authors: J. Prest
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-11-09 - Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

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In 1664, Molière's Tartuffe was banned from public performance. This book provides a detailed, in-depth account of five-year struggle (1664-69) to have the ban
Men and Masks
Language: en
Pages: 281
Authors: Lionel Gossman
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-12-01 - Publisher: JHU Press

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Originally published in 1963. Molière's plays rank among the great comic achievements in the history of the stage. Yet few attempts have been made to understan