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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Koppisch, Michael S. Rivalry and the disruption of order in Molière's theater. Madison, NJ : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, c2004 (OCoLC)607311378 |
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| Named Person: | Molière; Molière; Molière. |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Michael S Koppisch |
| ISBN: | 0838640095 9780838640098 |
| OCLC Number: | 54537201 |
| Description: | 216 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Love and Rivalry: The Ties That Bind -- Power and Identity: The Method in Arnolphe's Madness -- Enemy Brothers: The Interdependence of Orgon and Tartuffe -- "Grand seigneur mechant homme": Dom Juan and the Credo of Conquest -- The World Turned Upside Down: Rivalry and Ressentiment in Amphitryon -- Dark Comedy: Disorder and Sacrifice in George Dandin -- "J'ai decouvert que mon pere est mon rival": Love, Greed, and Rivalry in L'Avare -- Impossible Desire: Becoming a Mamamouchi in Le Bourgeois gentilhomme -- Philosophers and Fools: The World of Les Femmes savantes -- Doctors and Actors: The Victory of Comedy in Le Malade imaginaire. |
| Responsibility: | Michael S. Koppisch. |
Abstract:
"In critical readings of ten of Moliere's most important plays, this book argues that a rivalry that endangers order by collapsing differences structures the works and provides a key to their understanding." "Moliere's great comic characters all want desperately something that they cannot have. The objects of their desire may vary, but the presence of desire itself remains a constant. In L'Ecole des femmes, Amolphe wants, above all, to avoid cuckoldry. The title character in Dom Juan covets women. The bourgeois Monsieur Jourdain does all in his power to become a gentleman in Le Bourgeois gentilhomme, and the eponymous character in George Dandin views his woes as the price of an ill-fated marriage that he had hoped would elevate him to noble rank. Le malade imaginaire, Argan, has a seemingly crazy desire to be sick. The list could go on."--BOOK JACKET.
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- Molière, -- 1622-1673 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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