The Imaginary Invalid | Style
Comedy-Ballet
Once his theater troupe was established in Paris, Molière knew he had to please both Louis XIV, his most important patron, and the bulk of the theater-going bourgeois audience. Perhaps his greatest innovation in this regard was the invention of the ‘‘comedy-ballet,’’ a form that combines song and dance with farce and ‘‘comedy of manners’’ (witty comedy that is satirical of a particular social class). Comedy-ballets were Molière’s most popular genre, and often, especially in The Imaginary Invalid, their musical intervals provide an...
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