Molière

Molière Criticism

• Molière
  • Introduction
  • Principal Works
  • Criticism: Overviews And General Studies
    • Molière and Tartuffe: Recrimination and Reconciliation
    • Molière's Temporary Happy Endings
    • Molière's Tower of Babel: Monsieur de Pourceaugnac and the Confusion of Tongues
    • Translating Molière for the English Stage
    • Desire, Disclosure, and Power: Molière's Unmasking of Hegemonic Ideology
    • Molière and Marx: Prospects for a New Century
  • Molière in the Post-Structuralist Age: L'Impromptu de Versailles
  • Criticism: Tartuffe
    • Place and Setting in Tartuffe
    • Dramatic Justice in Tartuffe
    • Tartuffe, Representation and Difference
    • Tartuffe: Comedy or Drama?
  • Criticism: Dom Juan
    • Egoism and Society: A Secular Interpretation of Molière's Dom Juan
    • Obligation in Dom Juan
    • Ethics, Debts, and Identity in Dom Juan
    • Disappearing Acts: Style, Seduction, and Performance in Dom Juan
    • Molière's Dom Juan: Charity's Prodigal Son
    • The Actor and the Statue: Space, Time, and Court Performance in Molière's Dom Juan
  • Criticism: Le Misanthrope
    • Love and Friendship in Le Misanthrope
    • The ‘Women Question’ in Molière's Misanthrope
    • Another Purloined Letter: Text, Transparency, and Transcendence in Le Misanthrope
    • Lessons Unheeded: The Denouement of Le Misanthrope
  • Criticism: L'Avare
    • The Treasure in the Garden: Biblical Imagery in L' Avare
    • Harpagon: The Paradox of Miserliness
    • 'Til Death Do Them Part: Love, Greed, and Rivalry in Molière's L'Avare
  • Further Reading
• Molière (Vol. 64)
  • Introduction
  • Principal Works
  • Criticism
    • Language and Authority in Molière
    • Two Comedy-Ballets of Salon Life
    • Context: Genre and Occasion
    • Parasitology in Molière: Satire of Doctors and Praise of Paramedics
    • Reading Molière in the Theatre: Mise en Scène and the Classic Text
    • Caractères, Superstition and Paradoxes in Le Misanthrope
    • Molière's Bawdy
    • Comic Theory, Molière, and the Comedy-Ballets
    • ‘Don Juan,’ 1665-1925
    • Language for Money: the Patron and the Servant
    • L'École des femmes: Marriage and the Laws of Chance
  • Further Reading
• Molière (Vol. 28)
  • Introduction
  • Principal Works
  • Criticism
    • The Unreconstructed Heroes of Molière
    • The Seducer as Catalyst
    • Molière in His Own Time
    • Expansion and Brevity in Molière's Style
    • Paradox, Plot, and Outcome
    • Illusion and Reality: A New Resolution of an Old Paradox
    • Molière's Comic Vision
    • Molière's Reactionary Theater
    • Molière's Tartuffe and the Scandal of Insight
  • Further Reading