Moliere

The Theory and Practice of Comedy

Andrew Calder (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

180 Seiten

2000
Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd. (Verlag)
978-0-485-11427-0 (ISBN)

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This history of ideas provides an important means of understanding and reinterpreting the literature of the past. Calder applies this approach to the comedies of Moliere. Topics include a new theory of classical comedy, and a reinterpretation of Moliere's two most difficult plays.

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".

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.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.12.2000
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-485-11427-5 / 0485114275
ISBN-13	978-0-485-11427-0 / 9780485114270
Zustand	Neuware