Molière
Gertrud Mander, Diana Stone Peters (Translator), Frederick Ungar Publishing Co (Publisher)
In the years since Molière's death, succeeding generations have emphasized different aspects of his many-faceted genius. As Gertrud Mander points out in this contemporary reassessment "the king of laughter," our own age seems to be particularly fascinated by such complex character studies as "Tartuffe", "The Misanthrope", and "Don Juan". In addition, we respond with knowing laughter to the comedies -- "The School for Wives", "The Learned Women", and "The Miser" -- in which, with a startlingly modern sensibility, Molière focused on the war of the sexes, the education of women, and the often tempestuous relations between parents and their rebellious progeny. In examining Molière's achievement within the context of seventeenth-century France, Dr. Mander establishes surer links between the playwright's life and work than the myths perpetuated by overzealous friends and foes. Molière emerges as a practical man of the theater whose talent thrived on what it fed: the theatergoer's demand to be entertained. -- From publisher's description
Print Book, English, 1973
Frederick Ungar Publishing Co., New York, 1973