Marmontel And Demoustier, Le Misanthrope Corrigé : Two Eighteenth-Century Sequels To MolièreS 'Le Misanthrope'
Modern Humanities Research Association
ISBN13:
9781781887530
$25.26
At the end of Molières masterpiece Le Misanthrope (1666), the irascible anti-hero Alceste storms off the stage, resolved to spend the rest of his life in a remote wilderness rather than to spend another moment mixing with corrupt Parisian society. Molières comedy is thus, in an important sense, unfinished, and various writers over the centuries, from Fabre dÉglantine in the eighteenth century to David Ives in the twenty-first, have written sequels works that aim simultaneously to exploit the popularity of the original play, to resolve its narrative, and to lay to rest some of its more troubling implications about society. This volume brings together two of the first sequels. As their titles imply, both Jean-François Marmontels moral tale Le Misanthrope corrigé (1765) and its dramatic adaptation, Charles-Albert Demoustiers three-act verse comedy Alceste à la campagne, ou le Misanthrope corrigé (c.1790), follow the gradual rehabilitation of Molières bad-tempered misanthrope. This critical edition traces the two plays complex relationships both to each other and to Molières original comedy. It situates them both in the context of Molière reception in the Enlightenment, and particularly in relation to Marmontels debates with Jean-Jacques Rousseau about the ethics and aesthetics of Molières original play.
- | Author: Joseph Harris, Joseph Harris
- | Publisher: Modern Humanities Research Association
- | Publication Date: May 31, 2019
- | Number of Pages: 147 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 1781887535
- | ISBN-13: 9781781887530
- Author:
- Joseph Harris, Joseph Harris
- Publisher:
- Modern Humanities Research Association
- Publication Date:
- May 31, 2019
- Number of pages:
- 147 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 1781887535
- ISBN-13:
- 9781781887530