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  • Cholakian, Patricia Francis. "The 'Woman Question' in Molière's Misanthrope." French Review: Journal of the American Association of Teachers of French LVIII, No. 4 (March 1985): 524-32. (Focuses on the portrayal of women and communication between the sexes in Le misanthrope.)
  • Cruikshank, John, ed. "French Literature and Its Background." Oxford University Press, 1969, 187 p. (Considers the literary, intellectual, and social aspects of seventeenth-century France.)
  • Edelman, Nathan, ed. "Molière." In A Critical Bibliography of French Literature: The Seventeenth Century, Vol. III, pp. 226-43. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1961. (Bibliography of criticism on Molière's works.)
  • Ekstein, Nina. "The Portrait on Stage in Molière's Theater." Romance Quarterly 36, No. 1 (February 1989): 3-14. (Discusses "literary portraiture" in Molière's plays in relation to stagecraft and characterization.)
  • Gaines, James F. "The Burlesque Récit in Molière's Greek Plays." The French Review LII, No. 3 (February 1979): 393-400. (Discusses the role of the clownish servant in a group of Molière's plays with Greek settings: La Princesse d'Elide, Mélicerte, Amphitryon, and Les Amants magnifiques.)
  • Gossman, Lionel. Men and Masks: A Study of Molière. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins Press, 1963, 310 p. (Offers critical analysis of the following works: Amphitryon, Dom Juan, Le Misanthrope, Le Tartuffe, and George Dandin.)
  • Hope, Quentin M. "Dramatic Techniques in Les Précieuses Ridicules." In Renaissance and Other Studies in Honor of William Leon Wiley, edited by George Bernard Daniel, Jr., pp. 141-150. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1968. (Surveys playwriting techniques first seen in Les Précieuses Ridicules.)
  • Howarth, W.D. "Classicism: the Creative Years 1660-1680." In French Literature from 1600 to the Present, rev. ed., pp. 17-26. London: Methuen & Co., 1974. (Discusses the cultural values of honnêteté and préciosité that influenced seventeenth-century dramatists.)
  • Jones, Dorothy F. "Love and Friendship in Le Misanthrope." Romance Notes XXIII, No. 2 (Winter 1982): 164-69. (Argues that "a proper acknowledgment of the relationship between Philinte and Alceste is crucial to our understanding of Le Misanthrope.")
  • Jones, Dorothy F. "The Treasure in the Garden: Biblical Imagery in L'Avare." Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature XV, No. 29 (1988): 5167-28. (Examines the symbolism of Harpagon's "chère cassette" in L 'Avare.)
  • Knutson, Harold C. "Molière in Performance." Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature IX, No. 16, (1982): 151-71. (Focuses on the theatrical aspects of Molière's work.)
  • Knutson, Harold C. Molière: An Archetypal Approach. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1976, 208 p. (An archetypal approach analyzing the comedy of Molière.)
  • Knutson, Harold C. The Triumph of Wit: Molière and Restoration Comedy. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1988, 192 p. (Examines Molière's work using criteria normally associated with Restoration manners comedy.)
  • Konstan, David. "A Dramatic History of Misanthropes." Comparative Drama XVII, No. 2 (1983): 97-123. (A study of the virtues and deficiencies of misanthropes in three dramas, including Molière's Le Misanthrope.)
  • Lawrence, Francis L. "The Ironic Commentator in Molière's Dom Juan." Studi Francesi XII, No. 35 (1968): 201-07. (Explores the obtrusive interplay between the hero and the buffoonish valet.)
  • Lawrence, Francis L. Molière: The Comedy of Unreason. Tulane Studies in Romance Languages and Literature, No. 2. New Orleans, La.: Tulane University, 1968, 119 p. (Presents "a treatment in chronological order of the early plays, the work before the great controversial pieces, Tartuffe, Dont Juan and Le Misanthrope.")
  • McBride, Robert. The Sceptical Vision of Molière: A Study in Paradox. New York: Barnes & Noble Books, 1977, 250 p. (In-depth analysis of Molière's dramas, examining autobiographical and literary influences.)
  • Moore, W. G. Molière: A New Criticism. London: Oxford University Press, 1949, 136 p. (Criticism of Molière's work as viewed from a Restoration-era perspective.)
  • Parish, Richard. "Molière en Travesti: Transvestite Acting in Molière." Nottingham French Studies 33, No. 1 (1994): 53-8. (Examines transvestism in Molière's plays as a form of disguise rather than as a means of generating sexual ambiguity.)
  • Peacock, N.A. "Lessons Unheeded: The Dénouement of Le Misanthrope." Nottingham French Studies 29, No. 1 (Spring 1990): 10-20. (Examines the ambiguous ending of The Misanthrope, which has frequently been interpreted as tragic, attempting to "reaffirm the comic status of the dénouement.")
  • Peacock, N.A. "The Comic Role of the 'Raisonneur' in Molière's Theatre." The Modern Language Review 76, No. 2 (April 1981): 298-310. (Discusses the ambiguity and paradox surrounding the role of the raisonneur in Molière's plays.)
  • Philips, Henry. "Authority and Order in Molière Comedy." Nottingham French Studies 33, No. 1 (1994): 12-19. (Suggests that examples of authority in Molière's plays create a model for kingship, asserting the supremacy of the king but also giving direction to the king.)
  • Phillips, Henry. "Molière and Tartuffe: Recrimination and Reconciliation." The French Review 62, No. 5 (April 1989): 749-63. (Discusses the debate surrounding Molière's alleged anticlericalism in relation to Tartuffe.)
  • Powell, John S. "Music and the Self-Fulfilling Prophecy in Molière's Le marriage forcé." Early Music XXI, No. 2 (1993): 213-30. (Explains how Molière wove music, comedy, and dance into an integrated play with manifold meanings.)
  • Riggs, Larry W. "Ethics, Debts, and Identity in Dom Juan." In Romance Quarterly 34, No. 2 (May 1987): 141-46. (Discusses the theme of the relationship between individual identity and society in Dom Juan.)
  • Romero, Laurence. Molière: Traditions in Criticism 1900-1970. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Department of Romance Languages, 1974, 282 p. (Overviews critical studies of Molière from French, British, and American sources.)
  • Shaw, David. "Harpagon's Monologue." Nottingham French Studies 23, No. 1 (May 1984): 1-11. (Suggests that the "scene of Harpagon's monologue [in L'Avare] both reflects and concentrates the complexity of the play as a whole.")
  • Shaw, David. "Molière's Temporary Happy Endings." French Studies: A Quarterly Review XLV, No. 2 (April 1991): 129-42. (Examines unconventional aspects of the denouements of Molière's plays.)
  • Shaw, David. "Molière and the Doctors." Nottingham French Studies 33, No. 1 (1994): 133-42. (Proposes that Molière's representations of doctors were not intended as satire and do not reflect seventeenth-century opinions on the practice of medicine.)
  • Spingler, Michael. "The Actor and the Statue: Space, Time, and Court Performance in Molière's Dom Juan." Comparative Drama 25, No. 4 (Winter 1991/92): 351-68. (Focuses on Molière's handling of scenic structure in relation to the codes of social "performance" which governed seventeenth-century life at court.)
  • Sylvester, Joy. "Molière's Dom Juan: Charity's Prodigal Son." Romance Notes XXXII, No. 1 (Fall 1991): 23-27. (Offers an analysis of act III, scene 2 of Dom Juan, which is considered an important and controversial episode in French drama.)
  • Wagner, Monique. Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century: Molière and the Age of Enlightenment, vol. CXII. Banbury, Oxfordshire: Voltaire Foundation, 1973. (Includes discussion of the popular and critical reception of Molière's works during the eighteenth century.)
  • Zimbardo, Rose A. "Considering Comedy." Modern Language Quarterly 49 (1988): 65-72. (Lists problems presented by theories of comedy, evidenced by Zimbardo's perception of Knutson's inability to understand Molière.)
  • Zwillenberg, Myrna Kogan. "Dramatic Justice in Tartuffe." Modern Language Notes 90, No. 4 (1975): 583-90. (Considers the effectiveness of Molière's use of a deus ex machina in Act V of Tartuffe.)

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