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Author: Molière
Publisher: Good Press
Published: 2019-12-05
Total Pages: 46
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK'Sganarelle, or The Imaginary Cuckold' is a one-act comedy in verse by Molière. The story deals with the consequences of jealousy and hasty assumptions in a farcical series of quarrels and misunderstandings involving Sganarelle (the imagined cuckold of the title), his wife, and the young lovers, Célie and Lélie.
Author: Molière
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2001-01-25
Total Pages: 163
ISBN-13: 0547538820
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDon Juan, the "Seducer of Seville," originated as a hero-villain of Spanish folk legend, is a famous lover and scoundrel who has made more than a thousand sexual conquests. One of Molière's best-known plays, Don Juan was written while Tartuffe was still banned on the stages of Paris, and shared much with the outlawed play. Modern directors transform Don Juan in every new era, as each director finds something new to highlight in this timeless classic. Richard Wilbur's flawless translation will be the standard for generations to come, as have his translations of Molière's other plays. Witty, urbane, and poetic in its prose, Don Juan is, most importantly, as funny now as it was for audiences when it was first presented.
Author: Molière
Publisher: Oberon Books
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 96
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"He's a beast I tell you - a real animal" What happens when you've lived only for pleasure, and you finally run out of time? When you've broken every promise, outraged every decency and slept your way through half of Europe - where do you turn as the clock starts to tick towards midnight? Neil Bartlett's new translation brings out all the dark undercurrents of Molière's wickedly black comedy.
Author: Stephen Wadsworth
Publisher:
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781575259017
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book invites the reader to consider the history of Moliere's much-censored and oft-bowdlerized play "Don Juan," and to imagine, through this version of its text, its original fire. Moliere's wildly controversial script enjoyed exactly one performance before the censors and lobbyists started pulling it apart. This version supposes what could or might have been head that night, and means to bring modern audiences into the hour of the play's premiere-the high stakes for all involved, and the alarming effect the text and its ideas clearly had on those present. It includes a brief history of the play's suppression and early published editions, by Joan DeJean, an indefatigable scholar of Moliere, "Don Juan" and French culture. It also includes a brief history of Moliere's political and theatrical milieu.
Author: David Bradby
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006-09-14
Total Pages: 11
ISBN-13: 1139827294
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA 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.
Author: David Whitton
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1995-04-27
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780521478670
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines how Molière's Don Juan has been interpreted in performance by different directors and in a variety of cultural and social contexts.
Author: William Driver Howarth
Publisher: CUP Archive
Published: 1982-07
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780521286794
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study explores the evolution of Molière's comedy as a careful amalgamation of comedy and philosophical satire.
Author: Claire L. Carlin
Publisher: Rookwood Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9781886365513
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPaperback edition of homage volume published in hardcover May 2003.
Author: Virginia Scott
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2002-05-16
Total Pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9780521012386
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis biography of Molière was first published in 2000 and will appeal to general reader and specialists in French and Theatre Studies.
Author: John Smeed
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-12-16
Total Pages: 122
ISBN-13: 1000357384
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1990, Don Juan: Variations on a Theme explores the differing perceptions of this famous character following his first appearance on the European stage in the early seventeenth century. The book concentrates on the ways in which perceptions of Don Juan’s character have altered in response to changes in social and moral values. It examines famous Don Juan works, including those by Moliere, Byron, Pushkin, Shaw, Anouilh, and Max Frisch, and relates them to these changing views. It also looks at a variety of other plays, poems, and novels on this theme, and highlights the important role of music in Don Juan’s history. The book concludes with a consideration of Don Juan’s lasting popularity and whether it has run its course. Don Juan: Variations on a Theme will appeal to anyone with an interest in the history of Don Juan, comparative literature, and European literature.
