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BL
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1031743
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b786113
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Main Entry
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Calder, Andrew,1942-
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Title & Author
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Molière : : the theory and practice of comedy /\ Andrew Calder.
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Publication Statement
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London ;Atlantic Highlands, NJ :: Athlone Press,, 1996.
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Page. NO
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1 online resource (239 pages)
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ISBN
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0567042782
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: 1847142710
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: 9780567042781
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: 9781847142719
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0485114275
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0485121271
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9780485114270
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9780485121278
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Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Contents
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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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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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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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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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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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Subject
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Molière,1622-1673-- Criticism and interpretation.
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Molière,1622-1673.
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Subject
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French drama (Comedy)-- History and criticism-- Theory, etc.
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Subject
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French drama-- 17th century-- History and criticism-- Theory, etc.
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Subject
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DRAMA-- Continental European.
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Dewey Classification
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842.4
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LC Classification
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PQ1860.C3 1996eb
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