Molière, the French Revolution, and the Theatrical Afterlife by Mechele Leon
By Mechele Leon
Leon starts off via examining the functionality of Molière’s performs throughout the Revolution, exhibiting how his privileged place as royal servant was once disrupted by way of the sensible stipulations of the innovative theatre. subsequent she explores Molière’s dating to Louis XIV, Tartuffe, and the social functionality of his comedy, utilizing Rousseau’s recognized critique of Molière in addition to appropriations of George Dandin in progressive iconography to debate how Moliérean laughter was once retooled to serve republican pursuits. After studying the large quantity of performs facing his lifestyles within the latter years of the Revolution, she appears on the exhumation of his continues to be and their reentombment because the tangible manifestation of his passage from Ancien Régime favourite to new nationwide icon.
The nice Molière is preferred via theatre artists and audiences around the globe, yet for the French humans it truly is no exaggeration to assert that the daddy of French Comedy is a part of their nationwide soul. via displaying how he was once represented, reborn, and reburied within the new France—how the revolutionaries asserted his relevance for his or her tumultuous time in ways in which have been audacious, irreverent, inventive, and extreme—Leon clarifies the real function of theatrical figures in holding and portraying a nation’s history.
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