L'école des maris. The school for husbands. L'école des femmes. The school for wives
Author : Molière
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Page : 316 pages
File Size : 47,31 MB
Release : 1732
Category : Theater
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Author : Molière
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Page : 316 pages
File Size : 47,31 MB
Release : 1732
Category : Theater
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Author : Molière
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Page : 344 pages
File Size : 24,97 MB
Release : 1919
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Author : Molière
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Page : 188 pages
File Size : 29,24 MB
Release : 1732
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Author : Molière
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Page : 342 pages
File Size : 46,75 MB
Release : 1897
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Author : John D. Lyons
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 21,78 MB
Release : 2023-10-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0198887396
This is a book about how Molière, France's most celebrated author of comedies, made something strikingly new out of the traditional comedy plot of thwarted courtship. Though justly celebrated for his mastery of physical comedy and farce, one of Molière's key moves was to pay attention to the way women could use language. Seventeenth-century France was a time when speaking well became exceptionally important, and in this arena women were the trend-setters. Among the most important places to display taste and social skills were the salons, gatherings presided over by women. Yet women still enjoyed little in the way of rights, particularly regarding a central decision in their lives: the choice of a husband. French regulations of marriage contracts became increasingly restrictive, largely to the detriment of women. To draw attention to their plight, women novelists and essayists presented case studies in how men and women misunderstood one another, how women were coerced to wed, how marriages could become nightmares, and how courtships could fail. Against this fraught social background Molière showed women using one of the few assets they had, their mastery of words, and in particular the rhetoric of irony, to frustrate the plans of fathers, guardians, and other authority figures. The comedies discussed here include very well-known plays such as The Misanthrope, Tartuffe, The Learned Ladies, The School for Wives and Don Juan, and also less known but revealing and thought-provoking works such as The School for Husbands, George Dandin and Monsieur de Pourceaugnac.
Author : Diana Koloini
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 26,5 MB
Release : 2024-10-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1040132448
This book offers a new approach to the work of the great classical author. Molière’s is obviously a patriarchal world in which women are most often treated as objects of patriarchal autocracy, which expects their submission. Yet in a number of his plays, women display ample resourcefulness in countering the patriarchal rule, often managing to outwit it. To explore this topic, the book scrutinizes Molière’s most important comedies, The School for Wives, Tartuffe, The Misanthrope, and Don Juan, all of which feature complex female characters who play important roles. They show that Molière acknowledged a fully valid space for women and recognized their right to their own lives. As a prelude, the book analyzes two comedies from the margins of Molière’s oeuvre, The Ridiculous Précieuses and The Learned Ladies, which provoked controversy and indignant feminist criticism, since they appear to deride the emancipatory efforts of the time.
Author : Molière
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Page : 410 pages
File Size : 14,25 MB
Release : 1739
Category : French drama
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Author : Library of Congress
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Page : 1240 pages
File Size : 33,81 MB
Release : 1864
Category : Library catalogs
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Author : Library of Congress
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Page : 1250 pages
File Size : 13,31 MB
Release : 1864
Category : Library catalogs
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Page : 932 pages
File Size : 33,34 MB
Release : 1926
Category : Education
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