Les Precieuses Ridicules by Moliere

Les Precieuses Ridicules by Moliere

Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, dit Moli re, (1622-1673) est un dramaturge et acteur de th tre fran ais. Consid r comme l' me de la Com die-Fran aise, il en est toujours l'auteur le plus jou . Impitoyable pour le p dantisme des faux savants, le mensonge des m decins ignorants, la pr tention des bourgeois enrichis, Moli re aime la jeunesse qu'il veut lib rer des contraintes absurdes. Tr s loin des rigueurs de la d votion ou de l'asc tisme, son r?'le de moraliste s'arr te l o il l'a d fini: Je ne sais s'il n'est pas mieux de travailler rectifier et adoucir les passions des hommes que de vouloir les retrancher enti rement, et son but a d'abord t de faire rire les honn tes gens. Moli re dispose d'un grand talent comique. Moli re partage, en 1661, le th tre du Palais-Royal avec la troupe de Domenico Biancolelli, dit Arlequin. Il pr sente Dom Garcie de Navarre qui est un chec et L' cole des Maris qui triomphe. La m me ann e, Moli re emm nage en face du Palais-Royal. Le 17 ao t il cr e Les F cheux, sa premi re com die-ballet.

Molière, born Jean-Baptiste Poquelin in1622, began his career as an actor before becoming a playwright who specialized in satirizing the institutions and morals of his day. In 1658, his theater company settled in Paris in the Théâter du Petit-Bourbon. The object of fierce attack because of such masterpieces as Tartuffe and Don Juan, Molière nonetheless won the favor of the public. In 1665, his company became the King's Troupe, and the following year saw the staging of The Misanthrope, as well as The Doctor in Spite of Himself. In 1668, he produced his bitterly comic The Miser and, in the remaining years before his death, created such plays as The Would-Be Gentleman, The Mischievous Machinations of Scapin, and The Learned Women. In 1673, Molière collapsed onstage while performing his last play, The Imaginary Invalid, and died shortly thereafter.

Donald M. Frame was Moore Professor of French at Columbia University and an acclaimed scholar and translator of French literature. Among his notable works of translation are The Complete Essays of Montaigne, The Complete Works of Rabelais, and the Signet Classics Tartuffe & Other Plays and Candide, Zadig, and Selected Stories.

Virginia Scott is Professor Emerita in the Department of Theater of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She is the author of Moliére: A Theatrical Life, The Commedia Dell'Arte in Paris, and Performance, Poetry and Politics on the Queen's Day: Catherine de Medici and Pierre de Ronsard at Fontainebleau (with Sara Sturm-Maddox).

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ISBN 13	9782038716696
ISBN 10	2038716692
Title	Les Precieuses Ridicules
Author	Moliere
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Editions Larousse
Year published	1999-08-20
Number of pages	159
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