Dom Juan est un jeune libertin pour qui la constance n'est bonne que pour des ridicules Retracant les 36 dernieres heures de ce grand seducteur, Moliere en profite pour rompre avec les regles du theatre classique et mele dans cette piece provocatrice de nombreux registres allant de la farce a la t[...]
This collection focuses on Moliere's theatre as works to be performed as well as read. The essays deal in their various ways with limits which are imposed and respected or violated and broken. The question of transgression both as a subject within Moliere's plays and as a dilemma confronting Moliere[...]
The refusal on the part of academic critics to recognize the primacy of farce in Moliere's theatre is contradicted by wide spread theatrical pracitce. These essays develop the argument that Moliere needs to be rescued from the pantheon of classical literature and put back on the Pont-Neuf with the s[...]