The definitive guide to Molière's world and his afterlife, this is an accessible contextual guide for academics, undergraduates and theatre professionals alike. Interdisciplinary and diverse in scope, each chapter offers a different perspective on the social, cultural, intellectual, and theatrical environment within which Molière operated, as well as demonstrating his subsequent impact both within France and across the world. Offering fresh insight for those working in the fields of French Studies, Theatre and Performance Studies and French History, Molière in Context is an exceptional tribute to the premier French dramatist on the 400th anniversary of his birth.
Muu info
The definitive text on the social, intellectual and theatrical conditions within which Molière operated and his subsequent impact worldwide.
Biographical preface Georges Forestier; Part
1. Socio-political Context:
1. A Bourgeois at court Mathieu da Vinhae;
2. The religious climate Julia
Prest;
3. Medicine Valerie Worth-Stylianou;
4. Family law Janine Lanza;
5.
Women Wendy Perkins;
6. Gender, masculinity and cross-dressing Joseph Harris;
Part
2. Intellectual and Artistic Context:
7. Philosophical influences
Jean-Luc Robin;
8. Molière and classical theatre Michael Call;
9. The
survival of medieval and renaissance professional practices Marie
Bouhaïk-Gironès;
10. Commedia dell'arte Claude Bourqui;
11. The literary
establishment Richard Maber;
12. Are the Précieuses only ridicules? Molière,
salon culture and the shaping of France's collective memory Faith E. Beasley;
Part
3. Theatrical Context (Paris):
13. Molière's theatres in Paris Philippe
Cornuaille;
14. Stage design in Paris Philippe Cornuaille;
15. Company
administration Jan Clarke;
16. The theatre industry and cultures of
consumption Sabine Chaouche;
17. Acting style Sabine Chaouche; Part
4.
Theatrical Context (Court):
18. Colbert, cultural policy and the propaganda
of spectacle Georgia Cowart;
19. The decors of comedy-ballet: from the 'Songe
de Vaux' to the 'Rêve de Versailles' Marie-Claude Canova-Green;
20. Court
performances and their audiences Laura Naudeix;
21. Music Anne Piéjus;
22.
The livrets of Molière's plays Marine Roussillon; Part
5. Reception and
dissemination:
23. Audience laughter Coline Piot;
24. The triumph of
publicity Christophe Schuwey;
25. Molière and his critics: the 'Querelles'
Jeanne-Marie Hostiou;
26. Molière and his publishers Michael Call;
27.
Molière In print Michael Hawcroft;
28. Early modern English translations of
Molière Suzanne Jones; Part
6. Afterlives:
29. Molière at the hôtel Guénégaud
and the Comédie-Française: the early years Jan Clarke;
30. Comedy after
Molière Guy Spielmann;
31. Molière as national hero Mechele Leon;
32. Molière
in performance: Twentieth- and twenty-first-century productions Noël Peacock;
33. Molière on the modern Anglophone stage Cédric Ploix;
34. Who and what is
Molière? The film director's perspective Noël Peacock;
35. Molière in the
Arab world Angela Daiana Langone;
36. Digital Molière Claude Bourqui.
Jan Clarke is Professor and Director of Studies in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures at Durham University. Her research centres on seventeenth-century theatre, with a particular focus on stage and theatre design, stage lighting, company organisation, and the role of women both on and off stage. As well as penning numerous chapters and articles, she published the first, three-volume history of the company that succeeded that of Molière, The Guénégaud Theatre in Paris (1998, 2001, 2007).
