Le Misanthrope

Author : Molière
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : French drama
ISBN : UCAL:$B313492

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Author : Molière
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0822213893

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THE STORY: Outraged and disheartened by the vain flattery and calculated duplicity of his fellow men, Alceste declares that henceforth he will speak only the truth--no matter what offense this might give. His philosophic friend Philinte counsels him

Author : Molière
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044021069554

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Le Misanthrope by Molière Pdf

Author : Molière
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : French drama (Comedy)
ISBN : UCAL:$B313495

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Le Misanthrope by Molière Pdf

The play satirizes the hypocrisies of French aristocratic society, but it also engages a more serious tone when pointing out the flaws that all humans possess. The play differs from other farces at the time by employing dynamic characters like Alceste and Célimène as opposed to the traditionally flat characters used by most satirists to criticize problems in society. It also differs from most of Molière's other works by focusing more on character development and nuances than on plot progression. The play, though not a commercial success in its time, survives as Molière's best known work today.

Author : Joseph Harris
Publisher : MHRA
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-31
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781781887530

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Marmontel and Demoustier, Le Misanthrope corrigé by Joseph Harris Pdf

At the end of Molière’s masterpiece Le Misanthrope (1666), the irascible anti-hero Alceste storms off the stage, resolved to spend the rest of his life in a remote wilderness rather than to spend another moment mixing with corrupt Parisian society. Molière’s comedy is thus, in an important sense, unfinished, and various writers over the centuries, from Fabre d’Églantine in the eighteenth century to David Ives in the twenty-first, have written sequels – works that aim simultaneously to exploit the popularity of the original play, to resolve its narrative, and to lay to rest some of its more troubling implications about society. This volume brings together two of the first sequels. As their titles imply, both Jean-François Marmontel’s ‘moral tale’ Le Misanthrope corrigé (1765) and its dramatic adaptation, Charles-Albert Demoustier’s three-act verse comedy Alceste à la campagne, ou le Misanthrope corrigé (c.1790), follow the gradual rehabilitation of Molière’s bad-tempered misanthrope. This critical edition traces the two plays’ complex relationships both to each other and to Molière’s original comedy. It situates them both in the context of Molière reception in the Enlightenment, and particularly in relation to Marmontel’s debates with Jean-Jacques Rousseau about the ethics and aesthetics of Molière’s original play.

Author : Jean Baptiste Poquelin de Molière
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590689223

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Le misanthrope, comédie, with notes, revised by F.E.A. Gasc and W. Holmes by Jean Baptiste Poquelin de Molière Pdf

Author : Molière
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : French drama
ISBN : CUB:U183035176747

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The misanthrope by Molière Pdf

Author : Stratford Festival Collection (University of Guelph),Molière
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Drama
ISBN : UVA:X000762995

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MISANTHROPE by Stratford Festival Collection (University of Guelph),Molière Pdf

Alceste hates mankind. No one gives him the respect and honor he deserves. Although most people acknowledge his intelligence and wit, Alceste's flaw is his insistence on using those gifts against his fellow man as a demonstration of his own superiority. Even worse, Alceste has fallen helplessly in love with society's biggest coquette, the one woman whose outside affairs are destined to undermine his self-esteem, even as he is caught up amid the flurry of simultaneous court proceedings. Moliere captures human desires in all of their complexity in a psychological study that (in this adaptation) sparkles with wit in occasionally irreverent rhymed iambic pentameter.

Author : Molière
Publisher : Bristol Classical Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Drama
ISBN : IND:30000056014925

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Molière: Le Misanthrope by Molière Pdf

A critical edition of "Le Misanthrope". The introduction examines the interlocking levels of comedy apparent both in the play's literary texture and in the original performance, and discusses the history of its reception, showing how it is constantly adapted to the values of changing times.

Author : Molière
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-11
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781504064149

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The Misanthrope by Molière Pdf

The classic comedy about seventeenth-century French society—and a man who despises everyone. This play in verse, which debuted in 1666 in Paris, lives on as one of the greatest masterpieces of stage comedy. It follows Alceste—who constantly bemoans the flaws, foibles, and hypocrisies of the human race—and his competition with many other suitors for the hand of the alluring and flirtatious Celimene. In addition to its sheer entertainment value as an intriguing tale of romantic rivalries, The Misanthrope sparks debate on questions of honesty, idealism, and social niceties to this day.

Author : Molière
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1902
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HWNN3W

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Le misanthrope by Molière Pdf

Author : David Whitton
Publisher : Hyperion Books
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015024819628

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Le Misanthrope, Moliere by David Whitton Pdf

Author : Molière,
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2008-03-19
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781849439664

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The Misanthrope by Molière, Pdf

First performed in Paris in 1666, The Misanthrope is one of Molière's great comic masterpieces. Exasperated by the corruption of society, the cynical but noble Alceste wrestles with his love for the wordly and coquettish Célimène. This version of The Misanthrope was first performed at the Piccadilly Theatre, London, by The Peter Hall Company, starring Michael Pennington, Elaine Paige, and Peter Bowles. Ranjit Bolt has translated many of the world's masterpieces of theatre including works by Sophocles, Goldoni, Corneille, Beaumarchais and Brecht. His highly successful translation of Molière's The School for Wives (The Peter Hall Company) ran in the West End for six months.

Author : Joseph Harris
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780192867575

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Misanthropy in the Age of Reason by Joseph Harris Pdf

Ever since Timon of Athens shunned his fellow-countrymen and went to live out in the wilderness, the misanthrope has proved to be a fascinating but troubling figure for writers and thinkers. This comparative study brings together a range of material from various genres, periods, and countries to explore the developing status of misanthropy in the European literary and intellectual imagination from the late Renaissance to the dawn of Romanticism. During this period, the term 'misanthropy' shifts from being an obscure Greek calque to being almost banal in its ubiquity. In order to trace the contours of the period's evolving attitudes towards misanthropy, this study takes a combined thematic and historical approach. After two chapters offering close readings of the period's key icons of misanthropy--Shakespeare's Timon of Athens and Molière's Alceste--the remaining six chapters each explore different thematic issues of misanthropy as they surface across the period. Drawing on works by Shakespeare, Molière, Hobbes, Pascal, Rochester, Swift, Rousseau, Kotzebue, Schiller, Wollstonecraft, and Leopardi, as well as countless less canonical writers, this study demonstrates that the misanthrope is not a fixed, stable figure in early modern literature. Rather, he--or very occasionally she--emerges in many guises, from philosopher to comic grouch, from tragic hero to moral censor, from cynical villain to disappointed idealist, from quasi-bestial outsider to worldly satirist. As both critic of humanity and object of critical scrutiny, the misanthrope challenges straightforward oppositions between individual and society, virtue and vice, reason and folly, human and animal.

Author : Linzy Erika Dickinson
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : The human comedy (Balzac) Toneel
ISBN : 9042005491

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Theatre in Balzac's La Comédie Humaine by Linzy Erika Dickinson Pdf

This study of Balzac's work examines theater in La Comedie humaine both as a theme in itself and for its influence on Balzac's techniques and modes of presentation in his novels, and demonstrates the symbiotic influence of novel and stage on Balzac's work as a playwright and novelist. Gives an account of his experience in theater, and examines the history of his portrayal of the theater world and how this portrayal serves his narrative purpose. Demonstrates how and why Balzac relies on the theater for metaphor and expressive devices, and shows how he brought scrutiny of the capitalist ethos to the stage. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR