Virginia Scott: Molière. A talented actress, Madeleine Béjart, persuaded Molière to establish a theatre, but she could not keep the young company alive and solvent.

Her research extends from Molière's boyhood and his Jesuit education at the Collège de Clermont, through the beginning of his theatrical career in Paris and as a vagabond actor in the provinces, to his days as a court dramatist under Louis XIV. Many words or phrases used in Molière's plays are still used in current French:This article is about the French playwright. He earned a position as one of the king's favourites and enjoyed his protection from the attacks of the court.

User Contributions: Comment about this article, ask questions, or add new information about this topic: Name: E-mail: Show my email publicly. Born into a prosperous family and having studied at the Collège de Clermont (now,Through the patronage of aristocrats including,Despite the adulation of the court and Parisians, Molière's satires attracted criticism from churchmen. temporär gesenkter USt. Also read article about Molière from Wikipedia.

One of the more famous moments in Molière's life was his last, which became legend: He collapsed on stage in a fit of coughing and haemorrhaging while performing in the last play he had written, which had lavish ballets performed to the music of,Under French law at the time, actors were not allowed to be,In 1792, his remains were brought to the museum of French monuments, and in 1817, transferred to.Though conventional thinkers, religious leaders and medical professionals in Molière's time criticised his work, their ideas did not really diminish his widespread success with the public. She offers a narrative account of his life and an overview of his plays in the wider setting of the development of seventeenth-century French drama. She is the author of The Commedia dell'Arte in Paris (1990), winner of the George Freedley Award for best book in theatre studies, 1991.Check out the new look and enjoy easier access to your favorite features.Molière's long-lost trunk of letters and manuscripts has yet to be found amidst the dust of some Parisian attic, but in spite of that, a story of his life can be told from documentary evidence, reminiscence, gossip and innuendo, and inferences from his plays. Stattdessen betrachtet unser System Faktoren wie die Aktualität einer Rezension und ob der Rezensent den Artikel bei Amazon gekauft hat.

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His extant works include comedies, farces, tragicomedies, comédie-ballets and more. [Moliere: A Theatrical Life] (By: Virginia Scott) [published: May, 2011] | Virginia Scott | ISBN: | Kostenloser Versand für alle Bücher mit Versand und Verkauf duch Amazon.


He was to give himself entirely to the theatre for 30 years and to die exhausted at the age of 51.

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This full-length biography, first published in 2000, will appeal to … Molière's long-lost trunk of letters and manuscripts has yet to be found amidst the dust of some Parisian attic, but in spite of that, a story of his life can be told from documentary evidence, reminiscence, gossip and innuendo, and inferences from his plays. : Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Other playwrights and companies began to emulate his dramatic style in England and in France. Known as Jean-Baptiste, he was the first son of Jean Poquelin and Marie Cressé, who had married on 27 April 1621.In 1631, his father Jean Poquelin purchased from the court of,In June 1643, when Molière was 21, he decided to abandon his social class and pursue a career on the stage.

April 2008.This is a good modern review of Moliere's life. 20th-century scholars have carried on this interest in Molière and his plays and have continued to study a wide array of issues relating to this playwright. He was a controversial playwright, striking out against hypocrisy in religion and medicine, and finally a cynical survivor of the literary, cultural, and marital wars.

Read, highlight, and take notes, across web, tablet, and phone.Virginia Scott is Professor of Theater at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

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He was wary of sensibility or pathos; but in place of pathos he had "melancholy — a puissant and searching melancholy, which strangely sustains his inexhaustible mirth and his triumphant gaiety".Molière is considered the creator of modern French comedy.

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