Molière : the theory and practice of comedy /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Calder, Andrew, 1942-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; Atlantic Highlands, NJ : Athlone Press, 1996.
Temas:
Molière, > 1622-1673 > Criticism and interpretation.
Molière, > 1622-1673.
1600-1699
French drama > 17th century > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
French drama (Comedy) > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
Théâtre français > 17e siècle > Histoire et critique > Théorie, etc.
Comédie française > Histoire et critique > Théorie, etc.
DRAMA > Continental European.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • CHAPTER ONE: Character
  • 1. Aristotle's Poetics and New Comedy
  • 2. Moliere's distrust of theorists
  • 3. Character: moral and social status
  • 4. Comic types and decorum
  • 5. Comic types and moral philosophy
  • 6. Humours
  • 7. Consistency and poetic truth
  • 8. Making character visible
  • 9. Satirical functions of character
  • CHAPTER TWO: Plot and Action I: The Plots of New Comedy
  • 1. Unity of action
  • 2. The plots of New Comedy
  • 3. Plautine plots
  • 4. Terentian plots
  • 5. Moliere and New Comedy
  • CHAPTER THREE: Plot and Action II: Comic Fate1. Plot subject and character
  • 2. La Jalousie du Barbouille
  • 3. Sganarelle ou le Cocu imaginaire (1660)
  • 4. L'Ecole des maris (1661)
  • 5. L'Ecole des femmes (1662)
  • 6. The role of secondary characters
  • 7. The role of plot
  • 8. The denouement
  • 9. Aristotelian action
  • CHAPTER FOUR: Comedy and the Ridiculous
  • 1. Comedy as 'an imitation of life, a mirror of custom and an image of truth'
  • 2. Follies fit for laughter
  • 3. Evil and the ridiculous in New Comedy
  • 4. Evil and the ridiculous in the comedies of Moliere5. Useful comedy
  • 6. The ridiculous and self-love
  • CHAPTER FIVE: Reason and the Ridiculous
  • 1. Honest laughter
  • 2. The ridiculous and sound learning
  • 3. The nature of the ridiculous
  • 4. Bienseance, decorum and the golden mean
  • 5. The ridiculous made visible
  • CHAPTER SIX: Body and Soul: A Physiology of Laughter
  • 1. The moral origins of visible folly
  • 2. Farce and moral perspective
  • 3. Passion, folly and appearance
  • 4. Kinds of laughter
  • CHAPTER SEVEN: Honnetete
  • 1. Comic structures and content2. The ideals of honnetete
  • 3. Honnetete and the social graces
  • 4. Honnetete as a code for all
  • 5. Moliere, comic poet and honnetete homme
  • CHAPTER EIGHT: Judgement
  • 1. Montaigne and judgement
  • 2. Unclouded judgement
  • 3. Learning through things
  • 4. Satire and self-knowledge
  • 5. Judgement and laughter
  • CHAPTER NINE: Sociability, Reason and Laughter
  • 1. Sociability and the cardinal virtues
  • 2. Sociability in L'Ecole des maris
  • 3. Sociability and misanthropy
  • 4. Alceste and laughter
  • CHAPTER TEN: Families1. A microcosm of society and state
  • 2. A testing ground for folly and sense
  • 3. Avarice and paternal love
  • 4. Homes in chaos
  • 5. The servant as defender of the family
  • 6. Conservative values
  • CHAPTER ELEVEN: Aristotelian Pedants
  • 1. The stereotype of the pedant
  • 2. Pedantry and scholasticism
  • 3. A unified cosmology?
  • 4. Plenum or vacuum?
  • 5. The pedant and the honnete homme
  • CHAPTER TWELVE: Medicine
  • 1. Medical pedants
  • 2. Farce without satire
  • 3. Biting satire
  • 4. Court doctors

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