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The Misanthrope and Other Plays
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Moliere
Translates five plays of Moliere and comments upon the background of each dramatization.
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Oxford World's Classics
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Moliere, Maya Slater (Translator)
'Why does he write those ghastly plays that the whole of Paris flocks to see? And why does he paint such lifelike portraits that everyone recognizes themselves?' Moliere, The Impromptu at Versailles This volume brings together four of Moliere's greatest verse comedies covering the best years of his prolific writing career. Actor, director, and ...
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Tartuffe and Other Plays
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Moliere
Including "The Ridiculous Precieuses, The School for Husbands, The School for Wives, Don Juan, The Versailles Impromptu," and "The Critique of the School for Wives," this collection showcases the talent of perhaps the greatest and best-loved French playwright. Revised reissue.
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The Miser and Other Plays: 4
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Moliere, John Wood (Introduction by)
Contains background information on Moliere's career and style as well as the text of five comedies about human life and character.
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The Misanthrope and Other Plays: A New Selection
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Moliere, John Wood (Translator), David Coward (Translator)
In the seventeenth century, Moliere raised comedy to the pitch of great art and, three centuries later, his plays are still a source of delight. He created a new synthesis from the major comic traditions at his disposal. This collection demonstrates the range of Moliere's comic vision, his ability to move between the broad and basic ploys of farce ...
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The Miser and Other Plays: A New Selection
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Moliere, John Wood (Translator), David Coward (Translator)
Moliere combined all the traditional elements of comedy - wit, slapstick, spectacle and satire - to create richly sophisticated and enduringly popular dramas. "The Miser" is the story of Harpagon, a mean-spirited old man who becomes obsessed with making money out of the marriage of his children, while "The Hypochondriac", another study in ...
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The Cambridge Companion to Moliere
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David Bradby (Editor), Andrew Calder (Editor)
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, ...
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Moliere: Don Juan
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David Whitton, Michael Robinson (Editor)
Few plays have generated more controversy or had a more extraordinary performance history than Moliere's Don Juan. David Whitton's study examines ways in which this enigmatic masterpiece has been interpreted in performance through the vision of different directors and in a variety of cultural and social contexts ranging from pre-revolutionary St ...
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The Theatres of Moliere
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Gerry McCarthy, McCarthy Gerry
Gerry McCarthy examines the practice and method of possibly the greatest actor-dramatist. Drawing on Moliere's own brief discussions of performance and the contemporary evidence of his practice, this is a crucial addition to the debate on style and method in classical acting and on the staging of classical plays on the contemporary stage.
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Moliere: Reasoning with Fools
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Michael Hawcroft
Moliere wrote, directed, and starred in comedies for public and court audiences in seventeenth-century France. He is perennially successful, but perennially subject to critical controversy: do his plays aim to do more than make audiences laugh? This book focuses on a group of characters in the plays, the interpretation of whose role lies at the ...
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The Scandal of the Speaking Body: Don Juan with J. L. Austin, or Seduction in Two Languages
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Professor Shoshana Felman, Stanley Cavell (Foreword by), Judith P Butler (Afterword by)
What is a promise? What are the consequences of the act of promising? In this bold yet subtle meditation, the author contemplates the seductive promise of speech and the seductive promise of love. Imagining an encounter between Moliere's Don Juan and J. L. Austin, between a mythical figure of the French classical theater and a twentieth-century ...
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The Performance of Male Nobility in Moliere's Comedies-Ballets: Staging the Courtier
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Gretchen Elizabeth Smith
The comedie-ballet was a spectacular theatrical genre which blossomed in the first year of Louis XIV's absolute rule (1661), flourished under the friendship of king and playwright during that decade (1664-1670), and faded even as Louis turned his attention to the new French opera in the early 1670s. Though it lasted little more than a decade, it ...
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Tartuffe: A Verse Translation, Backgrounds and Sources, Criticism
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Moliere, Virginia Scott (Editor), Constance Congdon (Translator)
Wilbur's translation of Molière's farce was a co-recipient of the Bollingen Translation Prize in 1963. The play in his translation was first produced to great acclaim at Lincoln Center in 1965.
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Moliere and Modernity
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Larry Riggs
Describing the theater of Moliere as a systematic attack on Cartesian modernism, this book is richly theoretical with incisive and specific treatment of such plays as "The Miser" and "The Misanthrope."
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Moli're
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Andrew Calder
This book provides a practical and historical analysis of Moliere's comedies. Andrew Calder presents evidence and analysis to help modern readers to share the perspectives of the playwright's contemporaries. Chapter 1 to 10 define the mechanisms of comic drama, and offer answers to such questions as : what is a comic character? how does it ...
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Moliere
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Portia Williams Weiskel, Professor Harold Bloom
- History's greatest playwrights are covered in one set- Expert analyses by Harold Bloom and other notable critics- Ideal for class use- A must for all serious students of literature- Edited by an award-winning writer/educatorEach Volume, Covering Three To Five Plays, Includes: - User's guide- Editor's note and introduction by Harold Bloom- A ...
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The Moliere Encyclopedia
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James F Gaines
Born Jean-Baptiste Poquelin in 1622, the French playwright Moliere became one of the most influential dramatists of the 17th century. His comedies shaped the development of theatre in Europe, inspired his contemporaries in England, and left a lasting dramatic legacy after his death in 1673. Moliere has also generated a vast body of scholarship, ...
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O Doente Moliere
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Rubem Fonseca
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Zhizn' Gospodina de Mol'era
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Mikhail Bulgakov
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The Miser and Other Plays
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Moliere, John Wood (Introduction by)
This volume of Moliere's dramatic commentaries on society presents The Miser, a misguided hero who obsessively disrupts the lives of those around him. The School for Wives is newly translated for this edition and was fiercely denounced as impious and vulgar. Moliere's response to his detractors became The School for Wives Criticized. Even more ...
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Molire, the French Revolution, and the Theatrical Afterlife
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Mechele Leon
From 1680 until the French Revolution, when legislation abolished restrictions on theatrical enterprise, a single theater held sole proprietorship of Moliere's works. After 1791, his plays were performed in new theaters all over Paris by new actors, before audiences new to his works. In "Moliere, the French Revolution, and the Theatrical Afterlife ...
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The School for Husbands and the Imaginary Cuckold, or Sganarelle
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Moliere, Richard Wilbur (Translator)
"My notion of translation is that you try to bring it back alive. . . . If you take on a text which is somehow appropriate to you and which you may already love, what you want to do is to be as perfectly the slave of it as you can be."--Richard Wilbur Originally inspired by a revelatory Comedie-Francaise production of The Misanthrope in 1948 ...
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The Stolen Texts of Moliere: An Exhibition of Plagiarized, Pirated & Misappropriated Works from the Walter L. Pforzheimer Collection
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Eva Rose Guggemos, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
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Tartuffe; And, the Misanthrope
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Moliere, 1622-1673 Molire
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Moliere: A Collection of Critical Essays
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J Giucharhaud (Editor)
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