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Moliere - Reasoning With Fools (Hardcover)
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Moliere - Reasoning With Fools (Hardcover)
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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 heart of any answer to this question. For over a
century critics have baptised them 'raisonneurs'. They are
characters who engage with some of Moliere'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 Moliere himself played. The book takes into
account what is known of the performance styles of Moliere's troupe
of actors as well as engaging closely with the text of the plays
and the critical debate to date. Some of Moliere'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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