2000, ISBN: 0485121271

[EAN: 9780485121278], Neubuch, [PU: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom], Language: English. Brand new Book. This book provides a practical and historical analysis of Moliere's come… Más…

[EAN: 9780485121278], Neubuch, [PU: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom], Language: English. Brand new Book. 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 function dramatically? how does it differ from a tragic character? what comic uses does Moliere make of domestic settings, of family relationships, of "raisonneurs", servants, tyrannical parents and young lovers? what is the relationship of the character on stage to the world outside the text.to reader and audience? The nature and functions of plot and action, of reason, the ridiculous, judgment, laughter and excessive self-love are explored. Later chapters describe the satirical and historical settings of the major plays. All of Moliere's plays are discussed, but "L'ecole des femmes", "Le tartuffe", "Don Juan", "Le misanthrope", "L'avare", "Le bourgeois gentilhomme", "Les femmes savantes" and "Le malade imaginaire" are analyzed in particular detail., Books<

2000, ISBN: 9780485121278

The Theory and Practice of Comedy, Buch, Softcover, This book provides a practical and historical analysis of Moliere's comedies. Andrew Calder presents evidence and analysis to help mode… Más…

The Theory and Practice of Comedy, Buch, Softcover, 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 function dramatically? how does it differ from a tragic character? what comic uses does Moliere make of domestic settings, of family relationships, of "raisonneurs", servants, tyrannical parents and young lovers? what is the relationship of the character on stage to the world outside the text...to reader and audience? The nature and functions of plot and action, of reason, the ridiculous, judgment, laughter and excessive self-love are explored. Later chapters describe the satirical and historical settings of the major plays. All of Moliere's plays are discussed, but "L'ecole des femmes", "Le tartuffe", "Don Juan", "Le misanthrope", "L'avare", "Le bourgeois gentilhomme", "Les femmes savantes" and "Le malade imaginaire" are analyzed in particular detail. [PU: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.], Seiten: 239, Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd., 2000<

ISBN: 9780485121278

Paperback, [PU: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC], This work provides a practical and historical analysis of Moliere's comedies. The author presents evidence and analysis to help modern readers … Más…

Paperback, [PU: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC], This work provides a practical and historical analysis of Moliere's comedies. The author presents evidence and analysis to help modern readers to share the perspectives of the playwright's contemporaries. "L'Ecole des Femmes", "Le Tartuffe" and "Don Juan" are analyzed in particular detail., Literary Studies: Plays & Playwrights<

2000, ISBN: 9780485121278

The Theory and Practice of Comedy, Buch, Softcover, [PU: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.], Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd., 2000