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Moliere : Reasoning With Fools

by Michael Hawcroft

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Format Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10 0199228833
ISBN-13 9780199228836
Publisher Oxford University Press
Imprint Oxford University Press
Country of Manufacture GB
Country of Publication GB
Publication Date Sep 27th, 2007
Print length 256 Pages
Weight 442 grams
Dimensions 22.90 x 14.90 x 2.00 cms
Product Classification: Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 Literary studies: plays & playwrights Educational: Languages other than English
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The first book-length study of a much-debated group of characters in Molière's plays, the so-called 'raisonneurs'. Examining them in detail in the most famous plays - L'Ecole des femmes, Le Tartuffe, Le Misanthrope, Le Malade imaginaire - Hawcroft provides one of the best accounts available of the seventeenth-century French playwright whose comedies were so popular with the audiences of his time.
Molière 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 heart of any answer to this question. For over a century critics have baptised them ''raisonneurs''. They are characters who engage with some of Molière''s most foolish protagonists, but they have been variously interpreted as exponents of wisdom or as ridiculous bores. This book argues that new light can be shed on the words and actions of these characters, and so on the tenor of the plays as a whole, by detailed contextual analysis of the dramaturgical and comic structures in which they operate. They have never before been treated so exhaustively. They emerge neither as the mouthpieces of common sense nor as pompous fools, but as thoughtful, witty, and resourceful friends of the foolish protagonists whom Molière himself played. The book takes into account what is known of the performance styles of Molière''s troupe of actors as well as engaging closely with the text of the plays and the critical debate to date. Some of Molière''s most teasingly problematic plays are held up to fresh scrutiny, including L''Ecole des femmes, Le Tartuffe, Le Misanthrope, and Le Malade imaginaire. The book is written with scholars, students, and interested theatre-goers in mind. This is the first book-length treatment of the topic.

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