The Misanthrope, Tartuffe, and Other Plays

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Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191623156
Total Pages : 775 pages
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Download or read book The Misanthrope, Tartuffe, and Other Plays written by Molière and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2008-05-08 with total page 775 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Why does he write those ghastly plays that the whole of Paris flocks to see? And why does he paint such lifelike portraits that everyone recognizes themselves?' Moliere, The Impromptu at Versailles This volume brings together four of Moliere's greatest verse comedies covering the best years of his prolific writing career. Actor, director, and playwright, Moliere (1622-73) was one of the finest and most influential French dramatists, adept at portraying human foibles and puncturing pomposity. The School for Wives was his first great success; Tartuffe, condemned and banned for five years, his most controversial play. The Misanthrope is his acknowledged masterpiece, and The Clever Women his last, and perhaps best-constructed, verse piece. In addition this collection includes a spirited attack on his enemies and a defence of his theatre, in the form of two sparkling short plays, The School for Wives Criticized and The Impromptu at Versailles. Moliere's prose plays are available in a complementary Oxford World's Classics edition, Don Juan and Other Plays. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

The Misanthrope

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Total Pages : 88 pages
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Download or read book The Misanthrope written by Molière and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Le misanthrope

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Total Pages : 136 pages
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Download or read book Le misanthrope written by Molière and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Grouch

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Publisher : Oberon Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 92 pages
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Download or read book The Grouch written by Ranjit Bolt and published by Oberon Books. This book was released on 2008-09 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: n this witty cutting version of Le Misanthrope Moli re's angry hero Alceste becomes Alan - journalist, intellectual and free spirit- who finds himself adrift in a social whirl of false flattery and schmooze. In a world where nobody calls a spade a spade (or even knows what a spade is for), how can the cantankerous but high-minded Alan secure the affections of Celia - a spoiled, feckless, fickle socialite, who happens to be the love of his life?

The Cambridge Companion to Moliere

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139827294
Total Pages : 11 pages
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Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Moliere by : David Bradby

Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Moliere written by David Bradby and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-09-14 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed introduction to Molière and his plays, this Companion evokes his own theatrical career, his theatres, patrons, the performers and theatre staff with whom he worked, and the various publics he and his troupes entertained with such success. It looks at his particular brands of comedy and satire. L'École des femmes, Le Tartuffe, Dom Juan, Le Misanthrope, L'Avare and Les Femmes savantes are examined from a variety of different viewpoints, and through the eyes of different ages and cultures. The comedies-ballets, a genre invented by Molière and his collaborators, are re-instated to the central position which they held in his œuvre in Molière's own lifetime; his two masterpieces in this genre, Le Bourgeois gentilhomme and Le Malade imaginaire, have chapters to themselves. Finally, the Companion looks at modern directors' theatre, exploring the central role played by productions of his work in successive 'revolutions' in the dramatic arts in France.

The School for Lies

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Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780822225607
Total Pages : 116 pages
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Book Synopsis The School for Lies by : David Ives

Download or read book The School for Lies written by David Ives and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2012 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: It's 1666 and the brightest, wittiest salon in Paris is that of Celimene, a beautiful young widow so known for her satiric tongue she's being sued for it. Surrounded by shallow suitors, whom she lives off of without surrendering to, Celi

The Plays of Molière in French

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
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Download or read book The Plays of Molière in French written by Molière and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Misanthrope

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 62 pages
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Download or read book The Misanthrope written by Molière and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Molière: A Playwright and His Audience

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Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521286794
Total Pages : 360 pages
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Book Synopsis Molière: A Playwright and His Audience by : William Driver Howarth

Download or read book Molière: A Playwright and His Audience written by William Driver Howarth and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1982-07 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study explores the evolution of Molière's comedy as a careful amalgamation of comedy and philosophical satire.

Les Misanthrope

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Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781015640009
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Les Misanthrope written by Molière and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Men and Masks

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Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 142143086X
Total Pages : 288 pages
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Book Synopsis Men and Masks by : Lionel Gossman

Download or read book Men and Masks written by Lionel Gossman and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2019-12-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1963. Molière's plays rank among the great comic achievements in the history of the stage. Yet few attempts have been made to understand them as expressing the historical context of the author's time. Most frequently they have been interpreted from the point of view of purely literary history, while the characters have been seen as universal comic types. Lionel Gossman reappraises Molière's comedy in the light of historical experience and interprets it in terms of the conditions from which it emerged. He brings it into the mainstream of seventeenth-century French literature and shows that Molière was concerned with the same things that concerned Descartes, Corneille, Racine, or Pascal. Five comedies (Amphitryon, Dom Juan, Le Misanthrope, Le Tartuffe, and George Dandin) are studied in the first part of the book. A number of basic structures are found to be common to all of them, and these give the author his point of departure for the second part of the book. In the second part, Gossman examines Molière's position with respect to other major seventeenth-century French writers. The comic vision of Molière, Gossman argues, no less than the tragic vision of Pascal or of Racine, expresses a particular relation to the social structure of the time. The subject matter of Molière's comedy is thus, in the author's view, not universal human nature but the men and women of the society in which Molière lived. Indeed, Gossman goes on to argue that the development of society after Molière made it difficult, and in the end impossible, for later writers to see the world in the comic light that illuminated Molière's writing. Even in certain of Molière's own works, in fact, the comic vision shades into something close to Romantic irony.

Molière: Le Misanthrope

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Publisher : Bristol Classical Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
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Download or read book Molière: Le Misanthrope written by Molière and published by Bristol Classical Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical edition of "Le Misanthrope". The introduction examines the interlocking levels of comedy apparent both in the play's literary texture and in the original performance, and discusses the history of its reception, showing how it is constantly adapted to the values of changing times.

Le Misanthrope, Moliere

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Publisher : Hyperion Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Le Misanthrope, Moliere written by David Whitton and published by Hyperion Books. This book was released on 1991 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

With Charity Toward None

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Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0312094140
Total Pages : 210 pages
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Download or read book With Charity Toward None written by Florence King and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1993-03-15 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The unreconstructed people-hater offers her piece de resistance: a guided tour of the misanthropic life, and an inspirational handbook for Americans grown tired of goo-goo humanitarianism and sensitivity that never sleeps. The only trouble with this book is that its covers are too close together.--The New York Times.

Le misanthrope

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Total Pages : 344 pages
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Download or read book Le misanthrope written by Molière and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The play satirizes the hypocrisies of French aristocratic society, but it also engages a more serious tone when pointing out the flaws that all humans possess. The play differs from other farces at the time by employing dynamic characters like Alceste and Célimène as opposed to the traditionally flat characters used by most satirists to criticize problems in society. It also differs from most of Molière's other works by focusing more on character development and nuances than on plot progression. The play, though not a commercial success in its time, survives as Molière's best known work today.

The Hypochondriac

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Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408145871
Total Pages : 113 pages
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Download or read book The Hypochondriac written by Molière, and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2009-07-16 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First produced in 1673 and Molière's final play, The Hypochondriac is a scathingly funny lampoon on both hypochondria and the 'quack' medical profession. Argan is a perfectly healthy, wealthy gentleman, convinced that he is seriously ill. So obsessed is he with medicinal tinkerings and tonics that he is blind to the goings on in his own household. However, his most efficacious cure will not appear in a bottle or a bedpan, but in his sharp-tongued servant, who has a cunning plan to reveal the truth and open her master's eyes. Adapted by Roger McGough The Hypochondriac was produced by the Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse and English Touring Theatre and premiered on 19 June 2009.

The Sound of Heavy Rain

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Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571287670
Total Pages : 88 pages
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Download or read book The Sound of Heavy Rain written by Penelope Skinner and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2011-11-17 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Laughing. Talking. Hours in cafes drinking coffee. Chatting about boys. Girls. Romance. Sharing a plate of chips. It was one of those friendships...I don't know how to explain...like...Love. Cabaret singer Foxie O'Hara vanished two weeks ago from Mrs Whistle's Lodge. That very same night, Foxie's friend Maggie Brown announced her engagement to local businessman Dougal Cheese. Desperate to find her missing friend, Maggie seeks the help of private eye Dabrowski. To unravel the mystery of Foxie's disappearance, Dabrowski must try to uncover both women's darkest secrets and, in so doing, confront some demons of his own. Penelope Skinner's The Sound of Heavy Rain premiered at the Crucible Studio, Sheffield, in November 2011 in a co-production between Paines Plough and Sheffield Theatres as part of the first Roundabout Season.