Bitter Comedy: The Life of Molière
Paperback
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Publisher: Publishdrive
Published: Apr 9 2024
Pages: 358
Weight: 0.78
Height: 0.74 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Molière, the world-famous classic dramatist, lived, played and wrote three hundred years ago. Son of the court tapestry-maker to Louis XIV of France, Jean-Baptiste Poquelin became an actor, and then, taking the stage-name Molière, himself brought to the stage all the weakness and gaucheness that the tumultuous age set before him every day as France developed a middle class. He depicted the social climber in Les Fâcheux, turned his murderous humour on the hypocrite in Tartuffe, disparaged the money-worshipping bourgeois in L'Avare... And the list might go on and on of his creations, plays which for three hundred years have given audiences so much pleasure and entertainment - and still do today. Bitter Comedy, Miklós Rónaszegi's vie romancée, presents a lucid account of the life and times of the universally-acclaimed dramatist and of the genesis of his works.
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