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1 online resource (239 pages) |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Molière, 1622-1673 -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Molière, 1622-1673. fast (OCoLC)fst00034253 |
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French drama -- 17th century -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc
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French drama (Comedy) -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc
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DRAMA -- Continental European.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781847142719 |
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1847142710 |
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9780567042781 |
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0567042782 |
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