David Bradby is Professor of Drama and Theatre Studies at Royal Holloway, University of London.
Andrew Calder has recently retired from a Readership in the French Department at University College London.
Preface
Acknowledgements
Chronology
1. The career strategy of an actor turned playwright: 'de l'audace, encore de l'audace, toujours de l'audace' Marie-Claude Canova-Green
2. The material conditions of Molière's stage Jan Clarke
3. The master and the mirror: Scaramouche and Molière Stephen Knapper
4. Molière as satirist Larry F. Norman
5. How (and why) not to take Molière too seriously Richard Parish
6. L'Avare or Harpagon's masterclass in comedy Robert McBride
7. Laughter and irony in Le Misanthrope Andrew Calder
8. Comédies-ballets Charles Mazouer
9. Le Bourgeois gentilhomme: Molière and music John S. Powell
10. Medicine and entertainment in Le Malade imaginaire Julia Prest
11. Molière and the teaching of Frenchness: Les Femmes savantes as a case study Ralph Albanese, Jr
12. L'École des femmes: matrimony and the laws of chance Roxanne Lalande
13. Molière nationalised: Tartuffe on the British stage from the Restoration to the present day Noël Peacock
14. Landmark twentieth-century productions of Molière: a transatlantic perspective on Molière: mise en scène and its historiography Jim Carmody
15. Dom Juan: the directors' play David Whitton
16. 'Reculer pour mieux sauter': modern experimental theatre's debt to Molière David Bradby
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