The Heirs of Molière: Four French Comedies of the 17th and 18th Centuries - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0966615255 ISBN 13: 9780966615258

Publisher: Martin E. Segal Theatre Center Publ., 2003

Synopsis

This volume contains four representative French comedies of the period from the death of Molière to the French Revolution: Jean-François Regnard’s The Absent-Minded Lover, Philippe Néricault Destouches’s The Conceited Count, Pierre Nivelle De La Chaussée’s The Fashionable Prejudice, and Jean-Louis Laya’s The Friend of the Laws.

About this title

About the Author:

Marvin Carlson is Sidney E. Cohn Distinguished Professor of Theatre and Comparative Literature in the Ph.D. Program at the City University of New York Graduate Center. His research and teaching interests include dramatic theory and Western European theatre history and dramatic literature, especially of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. He has been awarded the ATHE Center Achievement Award, the George Jean Nathan Prize, the Bernard Hewitt prize, the George Freedley Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. His best-known book, Theories of the Theatre (Cornell University Press, 1993), has been translated into five languages. His most recent books are Performance: A Critical Introduction (Routledge, 1993) and Voltaire and the Theatre of the Eighteenth Century (Greenwood, 1998).

About this edition

• Publisher: Martin E. Segal Theatre Center Publ.
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0966615255
• ISBN 13: 9780966615258
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 366
• Editor: Carlson Marvin